The Samaria ostraca
Palace receipts from Samaria show a working administration and a population carrying both Yahwistic and Baalistic names.
Vom Boden bestätigtInschrift8th century BC
Inked receipts for consignments of wine and oil delivered to the palace, naming districts and individuals. The personal names divide between those compounded with Yahweh (-yaw) and those with Baal — a religious mix in the northern kingdom of exactly the kind the books of Kings describe.
In the tenth year. From Azzah to Gaddiyaw. A jar of fine oil.
- Gefunden
- The royal quarter at Samaria, Israel, 1910 — Harvard expedition under George Reisner
- Heute in
- Istanbul Archaeological Museums; Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Sprache
- Hebrew
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
The regnal year on the sherds does not say whose reign, so the dating and the identity of the king are argued.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
A key corpus for the administration and onomastics of the northern kingdom.
In der Schrift
Verbunden mit
Quellen
- Reisner, Fisher & Lyon, Harvard Excavations at Samaria (1924)
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