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Stone cube inscribed with cuneiform.

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Lot (puru), Assyria

Iron Age II, 9th Century BCE

Photograph of tombstone with Hebrew text, engraved columns, and decorative objects on top.

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Tombstone

1855

Basalt stela inscribed with Akkadian writing and figure on throne next to standing figure. Inset shows close-up of Akkadian writing.

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Stela with the Laws of Hammurabi

Bronze Age, 18th Century BCE

Clay tablet with cuneiform inscription.

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Vassal Treaty of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria

Iron Age IIC, 7th Century BCE

Relief of five standing figures carrying objects, and another figure prostrate in the middle of figures, surrounded by rectangular border with Akkadian inscription.

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Jehu on Obelisk of Shalmaneser III

859 BCE–824 BCE

Tomb with high tombstones on either end, with Hebrew inscriptions on outside of all sides.

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Tomb of Mordechai Meisel

1601

Tomb with high tombstones on either end, lions, shield and floral decorations on top, and Hebrew inscription on surface of stone.

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Tombstone (Prague)

1628

Tombstone of decorative foliage surrounding Hebrew inscription.

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Tombstone (Padua)

1565

Clay tablet in several sections inscribed with Akkadian text.

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The Flood Story in the Atrahasis Epic

Middle Bronze Age

Tombstone of decorative foliage surrounding Hebrew inscription.

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Tombstone Inscriptions (Padua)

1554–1705

Square inscribed with Aramaic writing.

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Uzziah’s Reinterment Inscription

Roman Period, 1st Century BCE or CE

Tablet with inscribed Hebrew writing and several cracks, and small disconnected fragment.

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Legal Complaint on Ostracon

Late 7th Century BCE