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THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA
Alphabet one inscription of any
U'ngtli.
found
in the
Siloam
It relates un episode from the contunnel in ISHl. struction of the conduit, and dates perhaps from tlic time of Hezekiah. The six lines below tnjnsliterated are taken from a photograph in the " Zeitschrift
A
peculiarity of these seals is the sepanilion of See Sk.i.s, and the lines by two parallel strokes. For seal No. 1 compare Li<l/barBiblioKrapliv 5.
"llandbuch,"
ski,
p.
4«7,
and Clermont-Ganneau, iii. 189; for No.
"liecueil d'Archeologie Orieutale,"
Inscription Tocnd in tuk siloa.m AyiEDicT. (From Vlf^ronx.)
der Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft," vol. xxxvi. See Siloam iNsciiirxioN, and Bibliography 4.
for 3 compare Clermont-Ganneau. ib. 154 et nrq. No. 2 Clermont-Ganneau, "Journal Asialique,"
1883.
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Seal No.
ing use of the nmtrix lietionum. The script, which was probably previously traced upon the polished stone by a TnO ISD (a ready writer) with a reed, resembles the writing used in the preparation of a lei;al manuscript rather than that seen on moninnents. It shows a conspicuous preference for curved lines, which not infrequently end in little strokes or flourishes. Besides this monument there exist from preexilic times only some very short in-icriptions. They are
In
" ArchCologie
seals,
some
of which may be even older than the Siloam inscription. They are characterized by the frequent occunence of
names composed with as well as by the utter absence of any representation of livin.c; things. There is, however, a series of seals that certainly bear Hebrew legends, and yet have pictures of animals or of Egyptian symbols.
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sels,
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tory-niarks" upon clay ves-
Seals.
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easily be seen from the text the language is pure Hebrew, and differs externally only in the spar-
mostly on
i.
Other smaller in.scriptions with Old Hebrew characters occur as " fac-
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As may
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potteries
found
which were
in
Jerusalem, in Tell-esSafi, and in Tell-Zukariya (southwest of Hebron). These are probably the product of the royal
which existed in the dilTerenl cities, and" in word "fp^h. "to the king," the seals
addition to the
mention
also the of the town in which the pottery
name was
sitviated
(com-
pare Lidz barski, "Ephemeris."
i.
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Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement. July,1900, pp. 207 et mg. The
Palestine
following town-
names have been found;
Socho,
Zif.
Ezer. Hori, Hebron. This explanation of the legends is due to
Clermont-Ganneau and Canon Dalton. It is more acceptable than the other which would see here the name of the king or some other person.
The
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(From ClerinoDt-GaDtipa:].
to
" Arch^Iogle
Orienule.") .
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accompanying this text shows "pOp These smaller monuments of epigraphy
illustration
and pan-
St-al
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