The Alphabetic "Scribe" of the Lachish Jar Inscription and the Hieratic Tradition in the Early Iron Age
The recently published 12th century b.c.e. jar inscription from Lachish was described as "undecipherable." This article offers a plausible interpretation suggesting a mixed inscription using linear alphabetic and an adaptation of the hieratic Egyptian accounting tradition. The inscription...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
2020
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2020, Volume: 383, Pages: 137-140 |
| Further subjects: | B
New Kingdom
B Administration B Inscriptions B Iron Age I B Hieratic B Early Alphabetic |
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| Summary: | The recently published 12th century b.c.e. jar inscription from Lachish was described as "undecipherable." This article offers a plausible interpretation suggesting a mixed inscription using linear alphabetic and an adaptation of the hieratic Egyptian accounting tradition. The inscription thus would stand at a transition point—namely, when linear alphabetic was beginning to be used administratively and when the Egyptian hieratic tradition was being adopted by alphabetic scribes. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/707391 |