• The three shekel ostracon is a pottery fragment bearing a forged text supposedly dating from between the 7th and 9th centuries BCE. It is 8.6 centimeters...
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    withstand an Edomite attack. Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions Three shekel ostracon Samaria ostraca Lachish letters Pike 2020, p. 203: About two hundred...
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  • hundreds of other antiquities, were returned to Golan in late 2013. Three shekel ostracon Books written on the subject included: ‘The Brother of Jesus’ by...
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    Mount did not identify "even a trace" of the complex. The House of Yahweh ostracon, dated to the 6th century BCE, may refer to the First Temple. Two 21st...
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  • long been limited to the 8th century BCE. In 2008, however, a potsherd (ostracon) bearing an inscription was excavated at Khirbet Qeiyafa which has since...
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    possibly Canaanite root Ṯ-Q-L, meaning "to weigh", which is also the root of "Shekel". The settlement is first mentioned in the Egyptian Execration Texts from...
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  • slightly different ordering of the alphabet. The Zayit Stone, Izbet Sartah ostracon, and one inscription from Kuntillet Ajrud each contain a number of reverse...
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    particularly, a silver half-shekel coin from the 3rd year of the revolt, upon which are embossed the words "Half-Shekel" in the Paleo-Hebrew script (Hebrew:...
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    suspicion of modern forgery. The first ostracon has a five-line inscription that records a royal contribution of three shekel of silver by a king ʾAshyahu to...
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