National Treasures

About Findings Periods The Mandatory Collection of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum
 
Object's Name: Ostracon Inscribed, Aramaic, Personal/Divine Name
Period: Persian-Hellenistic
Material: Pottery
Site: Maresha, T.
Lenght: 5.2 cm
Wide: 5 cm
Description: Reading: 1. עזרי 2. קוספ-- 3. ש--- ---ה 4. מה- Translation: 1. Ezri 2. [...]QWSP Very unclear inscription. עזרי- A biblical name, Ezri. קוספ-- - Name with the Idumean element QWS. A tentative reading could be: קוספדה. 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. 34.





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