 IAA Number: 2015-187
 | Object's Name: Ostracon Inscribed, Aramaic
Period: Persian-Hellenistic
Material: Pottery
Site: Maresha, T.
Lenght: 4.5 cm
Wide: 3.7 cm
Description: Very unclear reading:
1. נחלא- עליד
2. אכל-נק--
3. כול את/סוך
Translation:
1. [...] by the hand of
2. [...]
3. [...] all
עליד ('by the hand of')-
the term is frequently used in the Idumea ostraca, usually followed
by a personal name.
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. 19.
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