7 Epigraphic Notes on the 'Amman Citadel Inscription

[1969]

In 1969 Professor Siegfried H. Hom published the tury BCE, in the inscription of King Yaril).dalet is already developed; it will develop more slowly in Honeyman and Nora Phoenician texts. The vertical Phoenician and Hebrew. The letter he in the Taw lengthens early, as does ~ade. Three letters of the cian, falling out in Phoenicia proper in the tenth century, M. Cross, "Epigraphic 3. See the preliminary publication by H. Franken, "Texts from the Notes on Hebrew Documents of the Eighth-Sixth Centuries B.c.: II," Persian Period [sic!] from Tell Deir 'Alla," VT 17 (1967): 480f. and PL BASOR 165 (1962): 37, Fig. 1 [p. 118 below]. [The editio princeps was published in 1976: J. Hoftijzer and G. van der 6. The form in Fig. 2 of Hom's article should show a short vertical Kooij, Aramaic Texts from Deir 'Alla (Leiden: Brill, 1976). For bibliog• on the right between the horizontal strokes. The 'Amman form is best raphy, see Aufrecht, pp. xxvi-xxix, and J. Hoftijzer and G. van der Kooij, compared with the Bir Hadad ~ade, and the ~ade of the Phoenician Ba'! The Balaam Text from Deir 'Alla Re-evaluated: Proceedings of the Lebanon text (see Peckham: Pl. VII [pp. 104-5]). No doubt it is proto• International Symposium held at Leiden 21-24 August 1989 (Leiden: cursive in origin like fet.

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Sardinia. 7 The 'alep of other ninth-century Aramaic texts form is more elongated than the Nora and Archaic Cy• is derived from the archaic Phoenician form. None, how• prus kaps. On the other hand, it does not exhibit the curv• ever, is typologically as early as the Nun shows elongation, a ninth-century Aramaic As we have noted, the he of the Ayin is inscribed high and is of fairly large size. One with the proto-cursive forms. Rounded forms also appear 'ayin is inscribed in normal, circular form. A second is in the Kilamuwa and (especially) Zakkur inscriptions. open at the top. The latter circumstance is probably with• Waw stands outside the Aramaic and Phoenician out typological significance; however, we must note that series of the ninth century, both of which utilize a near• circular and open 'ayins occur together in the