Museum Number: 125207
Description: Limestone funerary inscription removed from rock-cut tomb with deeply incised and white infilled inscription in recess in centre.
Production Date: 7thC BC
Findspot:
Excavated/Findspot: Siloam
Asia: Middle East: Levant: Jordan: Jehosaphat's Valley: Siloam
Materials: limestone
Technique: incised
Inscriptions:
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription language: Hebrew
Inscription translation: .
Curator's Comments: On 11 October 1884 the Trustees authorised the presentation of a cast of this inscription to the Palestine Exploration Fund [PEF]. The cast was listed as still available in the British Museum Facsimile Service 'Catalogue of Replicas from British Museum collections' (n.d.), in the series "West Semitic Inscriptions: Hebrew".
Location: Not on display
Condition: Good/fair.
Exhibition History:
Exhibited: 1995 22 Nov-1996 29 Feb, Germany, Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, 'Die Reise nach Jerusalem'
Associated Names:
Named in inscription: Shebnâ
Acquisition Name:
Purchased through: Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau
Purchased through: Consul Moore
Acquisition Date: 1871
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 125207
Registration number: 1871,1107.2
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