 IAA Number: 2015-206
 | Object's Name: Ostracon Inscribed, Aramaic, Personal/Divine Name
Period: Persian-Hellenistic
Material: Pottery
Site: Maresha, T.
Lenght: 3.4 cm
Wide: 4.2 cm
Description: Reading:
1. -בי
2. קוס--ה
Translation:
1. [...]
2. [...]QWS
קוס--ה - A personal name with the Edomite element QWS.
A tentative reading might be: קוסבנה.
The ostracon is daated 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. 35.
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