 IAA Number: 2015-200
 | Object's Name: Ostracon Inscribed, Aramaic, Personal/Divine Name
Period: Persian-Hellenistic
Material: Pottery
Site: Maresha, T.
Lenght: 3.8 cm
Wide: 4.2 cm
Description: Reading:
1. עבדקוס
2. זבדבעל
3. קוסברך בר
4. עבדאח
1. BDQWS'
2. ZBDB'L
3. KWSBRK son of
4. BD'H'
עבדקוס- An Adomite name.
זבדבעל- the name ZBD and the theophoric element B'L. The name ZBD is
a biblical name which is associated not only with Judeans but
with other Semitic peoples as well.
קוסברך- An Edomite name.
עבדאח- The name has a Nabatian element ('BD) and the word 'H
(brother).
The ostracon is an example of the cosmopolitan Maresha in the
Helenistic period.
The ostracon is dated from the 4th to the 2nd centuries BCE.
Bibliography: Eshel E. 2014. "Iron age, Phoenician and Aramaic inscriptions"in: I. Stern (ed.) The Excavations of Maresha: Subterranean Complex 57: The 'Heliodorus' Cave. BAR (IS) 2652: 77- 94, Fig. 8. 30.
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