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Location

MARE0013

Maresha, 500-401 BCE. Potsherd. Label.

Transcription

בחש ב

Translation

[no translation]

Diplomatic

[no diplomatic]

Terminus post quem:
Terminus ante quem:
Notes
The ב and the ח are written in cursive Phoenician script. If בחש is not incomplete and is instead referring to a Persian name, Buxša, which appears also on a ceramic sarcophagus from Elephantine reading: לבחש, "(belonging) to Buxša".

Languages

Hebrew, Aramaic

Dimensions

H: 10 cm; W: 18 cm; D: —

Date

500 BCE to 401 BCE

Current location

No provenance provided.

Figures

No figures described.

Bibliography

Source of diplomatic

  • Eshel, Esther. “Iron Age, Phoenician and Aramaic Inscriptions.” In The Excavations of Maresha Subterranean Complex 57: The “Heliodorus” Cave, 77–94. BAR International Series 2652. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2014.
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Source of transcription

  • Eshel, Esther. “Iron Age, Phoenician and Aramaic Inscriptions.” In The Excavations of Maresha Subterranean Complex 57: The “Heliodorus” Cave, 77–94. BAR International Series 2652. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2014.
    Zotero

Source of translation

  • Eshel, Esther. “Iron Age, Phoenician and Aramaic Inscriptions.” In The Excavations of Maresha Subterranean Complex 57: The “Heliodorus” Cave, 77–94. BAR International Series 2652. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2014.
    Zotero
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