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: 3.4 cm
Wide: 4.2 cm
Description: Reading: 1. -בי 2. קוס--ה Translation: 1. [...] 2. [...]QWS קוס--ה - A personal name with the Edomite element QWS. A tentative reading might be: קוסבנה. The ostracon is daated 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. 35.





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