 IAA Number: 2015-192
 | Object's Name: Ostracon Inscribed, Aramaic, Personal/Divine Name
Period: Persian-Hellenistic
Material: Pottery
Site: Maresha, T.
Lenght: 4.2 cm
Wide: 4.2 cm
Description: Reading:
זבד
ZBD
זבד- A biblical name. During the Greco- Roman period this name was
not only associated with Judeans but with other Semitic peoples as
well.
Personal names inscribed on sherds of storage jars were usually
signify ownership of the jars. They might have contained a date and
the quantity of the agricultural product.
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. 24.
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