Three Unpublished Ostraca from Gezer
Excavations at Tell Gezer during Phase II of the Hebrew Union College operations in 1973 yielded three Aramaic items along with other fragmentary ostraca. The first, G73 Object #1973, consists of five broken lines, four of which are complete enough to be read tentatively as names: ʾḥmh (line 2); yhw...
| Published in: | Bulletin of ASOR |
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| Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
1986
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 1986, Volume: 264, Pages: 51-60 |
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| Summary: | Excavations at Tell Gezer during Phase II of the Hebrew Union College operations in 1973 yielded three Aramaic items along with other fragmentary ostraca. The first, G73 Object #1973, consists of five broken lines, four of which are complete enough to be read tentatively as names: ʾḥmh (line 2); yhwḥn[n or yhwntn (3); yʾznyh b... or wʾznyh b... (4); ḥnynʾ (5). Stratigraphically, this ostracon must date no later than the initial phases of the Seleucid conquest and reconstruction in 198 B. C.; palaeographically, it falls into the first quarter or third of the second century. The second ostracon, G73 Object #1945, is a clearly written name, yhwsp br ḥnnyh, and possesses a stratigraphically determined terminus ad quem of the mid-second century on stratigraphic grounds. Palaeography points to an early Hasmonean date. The final epigraph, G73 Object #2213, is a palimpsest that is too fragmentary for a definite reading (although two are proposed). Stratigraphically, it is no later than ca. 140 B. C. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1357019 |