The summer of 2013 offered the exciting announcement from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Eilat Mazar's excavational team had found potsherds of an inscribed pithos in the Ophel of Jerusalem that the excavators dated to the 10th century bc, which many have called the oldest Hebrew inscription ever uncovered at Jerusalem. The pithos in question was one of seven discovered in a foundational deposit as part of a fill, under a building that was constructed on bedrock. Numerous scholars have chronicled their opinions of the Ophel inscription's transcription and language, mostly utilising online blogs. This work seeks to delve deeper into the identification of each letter on the inscription, the language and translation of its text, and the dating of the potsherds of the inscribed pithos based on its findspot, with the intent of resolving each of these matters as confidently as possible.
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