The Samaria ostraca
Palace receipts from Samaria show a working administration and a population carrying both Yahwistic and Baalistic names.
Confirmado pelo terrenoInscrição8th 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.
- Encontrado
- The royal quarter at Samaria, Israel, 1910 — Harvard expedition under George Reisner
- Conservado em
- Istanbul Archaeological Museums; Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Língua
- Hebrew
- Como chegou até nós
- Escavado, ou ainda de pé onde foi construído.
O que mostra
The regnal year on the sherds does not say whose reign, so the dating and the identity of the king are argued.
Como os historiadores o usam
A key corpus for the administration and onomastics of the northern kingdom.
Na Escritura
Ligado a
Fontes
- Reisner, Fisher & Lyon, Harvard Excavations at Samaria (1924)
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