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A Prayer (?) from Kuntillet Ajrud
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[ . . . May] He lengthen their days and may they be sated . . . recount to YHWH of Teman and His asherah . . . [ . . . because(?)] YHWH of the Teman, has shown them(?) favor, has bettered their da[ys…

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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)

Date:

Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Prayer & liturgy, Gravestones & tombs

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Shalmaneser III, Kurkh Monolith
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In the eponymate of Dayan-Ashur, on the 14th of Aiaru (Iyyar), I set out from Nineveh . . . I set out from the Euphrates and approached Aleppo. They (i.e., the inhabitants of Aleppo) were afraid of…

Places:

Kurkh, Assyria (Üçtepe, Turkey)

Date:

853–824 BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, War, Calendar, Government, Monarchy, Gravestones & tombs, Inscriptions

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
The Gezer Tablet
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His two months, namely, ingathering; his two months, namely, seed (or: sowing); his two months, namely, late sowing; his month, namely, flax-cutting; his month, namely, barley harvest; his month…

Places:

Gezer, Land of Israel (Tel Gezer, Israel)

Date:

10th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Calendar, Agriculture, Writing, Gravestones & tombs

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs