| Sh'ma Pottery Shard
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Description:
This is a potsherd with the Hebrew word "sh'ma", meaning to hear, written on it and dates to about 500 BCE.
Era:
Middle Semitic Script
Image Credit:
Jeff A. Benner
Date of Inscription:
c. 500 BCE
Location of Discovery:
Israel
Date of Discovery:
?
Current Location:
Museum of Anthropology and Archeology, University of Pennsylvania
Language:
Hebrew
Writing Surface:
Pottery
Inscription:
שמע
Transliteration:
Sh'ma
Translation:
Hear
Comments:
This word is referencing the first word of Deuteronomy 6:4 - Hear O, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
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