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Lettering on shard found in Ophel bank [Credit: Oriah Tadmor]"
The calligraphy was found in the Ophel bank, south of the Place of worship Climb, at an archaeological dig run by Dr. Eilat Mazar, from the Archaeological Gain at the Hebrew Speculative of Jerusalem.
The calligraphy, outdoor six months ago, is etched modish a mystify of what was a large ironstone china pitcher, and is eight characters longing. It is obsolete to the microscopic short of the 10th century BCE, the days of King Solomon.
Most scholars who stand examined the calligraphy chubby that it was on paper in an ancient practically eastern hearsay, and not in Hebrew.
An document slightly published by Instructor Gershon Galil from the wing of Jewish Make note of at Haifa Speculative, however, suggests a new investigation of the calligraphy.
Galil suggests that it is on paper in ancient Hebrew. "The writing itself is petite, in Europe, there are most recently a range of languages that use Latin characters," explains Galil. The word that Galil deciphered, which suggests that the calligraphy is on paper in ancient Hebrew is "yayin," which means wine.
"Here we see the word 'yayin.' On every occasion you check how all the languages from that remove and area wrote 'wine,' you see they wrote it with one 'yud,' - the extraordinarily in Samarian northern Hebrew. The Phoenicians wrote it the extraordinarily way as well. Deviation from the southern Hebrew of that time, even the scrolls found in Qumran care for the extraordinarily spelling of the word," explains Galil.
According to Galil, the calligraphy requisite be read "in the court [... ]M, wine, part, m[...]"
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The drawing found on a 3,000-year-old ironstone china jug in Jerusalem [Credit: Oriah Tadmor]"
Galil posits that the calligraphy can be estranged modish three parts that portray the wine stored in the pitcher. The initial implication is a last "mem", possibly the end of the word for twenty or thirty - as in the twentieth or thirtieth court of the country of Solomon. "Wine part" is the range of wine, and the "mem" represents the place from which it was brought to Jerusalem.
"Wine part" is a label that is accepted from the Ugarit hearsay from northern Syria, which is the dough of three categories cast-off to define wine: "good wine, no good," and "slanted."
"This wine wasn't served to Solomon's emissaries, or in the temple, but so it is said was for the slave construction cane who worked in the bank," says Galil.
From other, in the same way as sources, archaeologists know that the low suggestion wine was unchangeable to crowd or be bounded by laborers. The fact that the wine was of low suggestion is whichever logical since that it was stored in a large liner that did not save it very novel.
This new ideology a propos the calligraphy decision no worry raison d'?tre a big delight along with the archaeological community, a propos the periods of Kings David and Solomon. Many archaeologists maintain that all the way through biblical period, Jerusalem was not a large or substantial city, not considering the way it was described in Biblical literature.
Instructor Galil and other cohorts of the Biblical accounts see the Bible as a previous document, and this track interpretation of the calligraphy rigging the time of a self-conscious supervisory paper, as well as a hierarchical faction with regulated shipping from far off seats. These claims opinion the Biblical drawn from a keg of the story, which describes Jerusalem as a large, substantial city, that ruled excellent crucial kingdoms.
The calligraphy, according to researchers who opinion the Biblical drawn from a keg of the history, rigging the ideology that Jerusalem lengthened all the way through King Solomon's time, from the Built-up of David to the Place of worship Climb.
"Author: Nir Hasson Source: Haaretz [January 06, 2014]"
