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Cypriot amphora with a Phoenician inscription
A Cypriot vessel, a Phoenician inscription and a findspot nobody recorded: one object that teaches us to separate what is written on it from where it came from.
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Lachish Letter VIII
A sherd of a pottery vessel with a Hebrew inscription in ink, found at Lachish and on display today in London. The ink is very faded, the record gives no numeric date, and it must not be confused with Letter II.
Text frame in place of a photograph
PotteryLength 6.40 cm; width 9.50 cm; thickness 0.30-0.50 cm
The source states no licence for its image, so it is not reproduced here
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The Tel Dan stele: "House of David"
A fragment of a basalt stele with an Aramaic inscription, found at Tel Dan and held by the Israel Museum. The photograph here is a visitor's photograph from a temporary exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in 2017 (CC BY-SA 4.0), not the record's image; the museum's own image is seen in the record.