IAA Number: 2015-193
| Object's Name: Ostracon Inscribed, Aramaic, Personal/Divine Name Period: Persian-Hellenistic Material: Pottery Site: Maresha, T. Lenght: 3.4 cm Wide: 2.8 cm Description: Reading:
חנינת
HNYNT
The name HNYNT is unknown. It is probaby the name of a woman.
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. 25.
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