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Abecedaries from Kuntillet Ajrud
Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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I reign in a[ll (Judah (or: the land)]
Muster strength and [ . . . ]
the king of Egypt to [ . . . ]
Translated by Anson F. Rainey from Shmuel Aḥituv’s Hebrew edition.
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