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The Words of Ahiqar are the teachings that Ahiqar, the wise scribe who was chief counselor to the kings of Assyria, imparted to his nephew and adopted son Nadin.
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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
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Fifth Century BCE
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Thebes, Egypt (Luxor, Egypt)
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New Kingdom (Egypt), 15th Century BCE
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Maurice Joseph Cattaui, Eduard Matasek
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
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1905
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Behistun Trilingual Inscription, Persia. This inscription of Darius I (reigned 522–486 BCE) illustrates the polyglot character of the Persian Empire. Versions in the Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian…
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Kermanshah, Iran
Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
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Persian Period, Late 6th–Early 5th Century BCE
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To/of the governor of the city. Translated by Shmuel Aḥituv, Ze’ev Meshel, and Esther Eshel.
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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This fringe from Kuntillet Ajrud, knotted from undyed linen threads, could be the fringe (tzitzit) that Israelites are commanded to wear on the corners of their garments, as indicated in Numbers 15:37…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Centuries BCE
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Sakkara, Egypt
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ca. 2625–2350 BCE
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Upon your nakedness a white day celebrates,
You who are [so] poor and so rich,
A wall of mountains has frozen,
Transparent like a deceptive vision,
Attached to the horizon.
Noon. The vastnesses of…
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Esther Raab
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Cairo, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Cairo, Egypt)
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1923
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On the 18th of Phaophi, year four of Artaxerxes the king in Elephantine the fortress, Malchiah son of Jashobiah, an Aramean, hereditary-property-holder in Elephantine the fortress of the detachment of…
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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
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401 BCE