Arad ostraca
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arad-ostraca-177-13936287
title:
Arad ostraca
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The Arad ostraca, also known as the Eliashib Archive, is a collection of more than 200 inscribed pottery shards found at Tel Arad in the 1960s by archeologist Yohanan Aharoni. Arad was an Iron Age fort at the southern outskirts of the Kingdom of Judah, close to Beersheba in modern Israel. One hundred and seven of the ostraca are written in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet and dated to circa 600 BCE. Of the ostraca dated to later periods, the bulk are written in Aramaic and a few in Greek and Arabic. Th
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Collection of more than 100 inscribed pottery shards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arad_ostraca
date created:
2020-12-08T21:17:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T04:05:55Z
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13
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