>James Tabor at TaborBlog has a report on the extraordinary findings at the excavation on Mt. Zion. Among the findings was an ancient inscription written in an archaic Jewish script. This is how this finding was described:

A stone vessel with an ancient inscription of ten lines written in an archaic Jewish script. Such stone vessels were used in connection with maintaining ritual purity related to Temple worship, and they are found in abundance in areas where the priests lived. We have found a dozen or more on our site over the past three years. However, to have ten lines of text is unprecedented. One normally might find a single name inscribed, or a line or two, but this is the first text of this length ever found on such a vessel. We have shared high-resolution photos with various epigraphic experts in Jerusalem who are working together to try and decipher this text. It is written in a very informal cursive hand and is quite difficult to read.

Read the complete report by visiting James Tabor’s blog.

HT: Jim Davila

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

Tags: Archaeology, Inscription, James Tabor

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