The Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon: A New Collation Based on the Multispectral Images, with Translation and Commentary
This paper provides a new collation of the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon on the basis of the multispectral images produced by Gregory Bearman and William Christens-Barry in collaboration with a number of imaging labs in 2009. It proposes 59 letters in total, with 12 new readings, including 5 new partial...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2022
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2022, Volume: 388, Pages: 181-210 |
| Further subjects: | B
Hebrew inscriptions
B Northwest Semitic epigraphy B Iron Age inscription B Khirbet Qeiyafa |
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| Summary: | This paper provides a new collation of the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon on the basis of the multispectral images produced by Gregory Bearman and William Christens-Barry in collaboration with a number of imaging labs in 2009. It proposes 59 letters in total, with 12 new readings, including 5 new partial reconstructions, all supported by an analysis of these detailed, high-definition images. This new collation permits a renewed attempt at translation of the ostracon, which is interpreted as a record of the summons of a defendant in a legal dispute. In the course of analysis, it is argued that if the decipherment is accepted, the language of the text appears to be an archaic, dialectal form of Hebrew. |
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| ISSN: | 2769-3589 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/720558 |