Lachish jar sherd (12th c. BCE) The "Lachish jar sherd", found in 2014 in a stratigraphic context (Level VI) which allows dating it to around 1130 BCE, contains a fragmentary early alphabetic inscription. The remaining nine letters, nine of them in three lines, are perfectly discernable, but they cannot be convincingly combined into words and the words into a text. The undecipherable inscription still is of great palaeographic interest, given the scarcity of Late Bronze Age West Semitic inscriptions found in controlled excavations, as it adds to our knowledge about the evolution of alphabetic script.
Lachish jar sherd (12th c BCE) The "Lachish jar sherd" found in 2014 in a stratigraphic context (Level VI) which allows dating it to around 1130 BCE contains a fragmentary early alphabetic inscription The remaining nine letters nine of them in three lines are perfectly discernable but they cannot be convincingly combined into words and the words into a text The undecipherable inscription still is of great palaeographic interest given the scarcity of Late Bronze Age West Semitic inscriptions found in controlled excavations as it adds to our knowledge about the evolution of alphabetic script