Zayit Stone
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zayit-stone-220-1179807
title:
Zayit Stone
text:
The Zayit Stone is a 38-pound (17 kg) limestone boulder dating to the 10th century BCE, discovered on 15 July 2005 at Tel Zayit (Zeitah) in the Guvrin Valley, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) southwest of Jerusalem. The boulder measures 37.5 by 27 by 15.7 centimetres and was embedded in the stone wall of a building. It is the earliest known example of the complete Phoenician or Paleo-Hebrew alphabet as it had developed after the Bronze Age collapse out of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet. The flat side o
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Example of Phoenician or Old Hebrew script
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zayit_Stone
date created:
2005-11-11T00:17:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T13:24:02Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Tel-Zayit-Stone-Inscription.jpg","width":2799,"height":1667}
fields total:
13
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16