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‘Atiqot 110 (2023)
ISBN 2948-040X
From
Nasas
to
Semakhyahu
: Two New Engraved Inscriptions from Iron Age Moẓa
(pp. 23–31)
Marion Sindel and Haggai Misgav
Keywords: Kingdom of Judah, cult, potters, economy, epigraphy, Hebrew script
Two inscriptions recently found on jar fragments at Tel Moẓa help clarify the reading of two previously uncovered inscriptions at the site. The four ancient Hebrew inscriptions, all inscribed on jars before firing, render a unique formula, where both the sender and recipient are mentioned, representing a new, heretofore unattested category of ownership inscriptions. Drawing both on the stratigraphic and epigraphic evidence, all four inscriptions can be placed in the seventh century BCE, a time when Tel Moẓa appears to have been an important economic and administrative center, as well as a cultic one.