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Your servant, Hoshayahu, sent to inform my lord, Yaush: May YHWH cause my lord to hear tidings of peace and tidings of good. And now, open the ear of your servant concerning the letter which you sent…
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Lachish, Land of Israel (Tel Lakhish, Israel)
Date:
586 BCE
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[The matter of] the breakthrough: And this is the matter of the breakthrough. While [the hewers were swinging the] axe, each towards his companion, and while there were still three cubits to he[w…
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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End of 8th Century BCE
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An abecedary is a list of the letters of the alphabet, written in order, for instruction or practice in writing, and perhaps also for other purposes. Four abecedaries were written on this large…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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Iron Age, 12th–6th Century BCE
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Belonging to Gedalyahu “who is over the House.”
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Lachish, Land of Israel (Tel Lakhish, Israel)
Date:
6th Century BCE
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Belonging to Hizkiyahu (Hezekiah), (son of) Ahaz, king of Judah.
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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7th Century BCE
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A double-line border surrounds the inscription on this seal, made of black paste or serpentine (a magnesium silicate), found at Arad. A central boss with flanking lotus buds separates the names…
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Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
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Iron Age IIC, 7th–6th Century BCE
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Message of Amaryaw: “Say to my lord, are you well? I have blessed you by YHWH of Teman and His asherah. May He bless you and may He keep you, and may He be with my lord [forever(?)].”)
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Late ninth or Early eighth Century BCE
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Your son(s) Gemaryahu and Nehemyahu sent concerning the welfare of Malkiyahu.
I bless you to YHWH. And now: Your [ser]vant has inclined his [he]art to what [you] sa[id, and I have written] to my lord…
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Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
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Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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Lachish, Land of Israel (Tel Lachish, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB, Late 8th Century BCE