 IAA Number: 2015-205
 | 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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