Two Iron Age Alphabetic Inscriptions from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel

This paper presents two brief alphabetic inscriptions from Area D in the lower city of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, both deriving from Iron Age IIA contexts. The first is written in an Early Alphabetic script similar to an inscription previously published from the site (Maeir et al. 2008) and is interpreted a...

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Authors: Eshel, Ester (Author) ; Notarius, Tania 1967- (Author) ; Dagan, Amit (Author) ; Eniukhina, Maria (Author) ; Workman, Vanessa (Author) ; Maʾir, Aharon 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2022
In: Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2022, Volume: 388, Pages: 31-49
Further subjects:B Alphabet
B Inscription
B Iron Age
B Philistine
B Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi / Gath
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Summary:This paper presents two brief alphabetic inscriptions from Area D in the lower city of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, both deriving from Iron Age IIA contexts. The first is written in an Early Alphabetic script similar to an inscription previously published from the site (Maeir et al. 2008) and is interpreted as being related to the storage of wine. The second, written in later, "formalized" alphabetic script, is quite fragmentary and difficult to decipher, for which several possible interpretations are suggested. These two new inscriptions join the relatively large number of alphabetic inscriptions from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, second only in number to contemporaneous Tel Rehov, and provide additional evidence to the outstanding role of the site during the early Iron Age.
ISSN:2769-3589
Contains:Enthalten in: Bulletin of ASOR
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1086/721690