‘Atiqot 106 (2022)
ISBN 978-965-406-758-4
An Aramaic Inscription from beneath Wilson’s Arch
(pp. 75–88)
Esther Eshel, Avraham Solomon, Tehillah Lieberman, Joe Uziel and Anat Cohen-Weinberger
Keywords: epigraphy, language, personal names, ostracon
The excavations under Wilson’s Arch yielded a fourth–third-century BCE administrative Aramaic inscription, incised in mirror writing on a potsherd. The inscription is of great importance as it contributes to our understanding of the development of language and writing in Jerusalem in this period, also reflecting on the scribe’s origin.