The Samaria ostraca
Palace receipts from Samaria show a working administration and a population carrying both Yahwistic and Baalistic names.
Fakapapau'i 'e he keliTohi tongi maka8th 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.
- Na'e 'ilo'i
- The royal quarter at Samaria, Israel, 1910 — Harvard expedition under George Reisner
- 'Oku tauhi 'i
- Istanbul Archaeological Museums; Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Lea
- Hebrew
- Na'e a'u mai fēfē kiate kitautolu
- Na'e keli hake, pe 'oku kei tu'u 'i he potu na'e langa ai.
Ko e me'a 'oku ne fakahā
The regnal year on the sherds does not say whose reign, so the dating and the identity of the king are argued.
Founga hono ngāue'aki 'e he kau hisitōlia
A key corpus for the administration and onomastics of the northern kingdom.
'I he Folofola
Fekau'aki mo
Ngaahi ma'u'anga fakamatala
- Reisner, Fisher & Lyon, Harvard Excavations at Samaria (1924)
'Oku 'i he lea faka-Pilitānia 'a e ngaahi fakamatala ko 'eni he taimi ni. 'E muimui mai 'a e liliu.