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DESCRIPTION | ||
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Photo by Bruce and Kenneth Zuckerman West Semitic Research Project |
Language: | Ammonite (a West Semitic Language) |
| Medium: | white, fine-grained limestone | |
| Size: | 6.5 cm high 5 cm wide | |
| Length: | 8 lines of writing | |
| Approximate Date: | late 9th cent. BCE | |
| Genre: | building inscription | |
| Place of Discovery: | Jebel Qal'ah (Citadel Hill) Amman, Jordan (ancient Rabbath-Ammon) | |
| Date of Discovery: | 1961 | |
| Current Location: | Jordan Archaeological Museum Amman, Jordan | |
 Amman Citadel (photo by Francesca Radcliffe) |
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(Adapted from Fulco 1978) | ||
| [ . . . מ]לכם . בנה . לך . מבאת . סבבת [. . .] | 1 | [. . . Mi]lkom, he has constructed for you the precinct entrances [. . .] |
| [ . . . ] . ככל . מסבב . עלך . מת . ימתן [. . .] | 2 | [. . .] that all who threaten you shall surely die [. . .] |
| כחד . אכחד[ ] וכל . מערב [. . .] | 3 | [. . .] I shall surely destroy, and all who enter [. . .] |
| ובכל . סדרת . ילנן . צדק[ם . . .] | 4 | [. . .] and amidst all its columns the just shall reside [. . .] |
| [. . .] ל . תדלת . בטן כרה [ . . . ] | 5 | [. . .] there will hang from its doors an ornament [. . .] |
| [ . . . ]ה תשתע . בבן . אלם | 6 | [. . .] will be offered within its portico |
| [ . . . ]ושלוה ונ[ . . . ] | 7 | [. . .] and safety [. . .] |
| [. . . ]שלם לה וש[ . . . ] | 8 | [. . .] peace to you and pe[ace . . .] |
| SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Aufrecht, Wilfred E. "The Ammonite Language of the Iron Age."
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 266 (1987) 85-95. Cross, Frank Moore. "Epigraphic Notes on the Amman Citadel Inscription." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 193 (1969) 13-19. Dornemann, Rudolph Henry. The Archaeology of the Transjordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Public Museum, 1983. Fulco, William J., S.J. "The `Amman Citadel Inscription': A New Collation." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 230 (1978) 39-42. Horn, Siegfried H. "The Amman Citadel Inscription." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 193 (1969) 1-12. Israel, F. "The Language of the Ammonites." Orientalia lovaniensia periodica 10 (1979) 143-59. Jackson, Kent P. The Ammonite Language of the Iron Age. Harvard Semitic Monographs 27. Chico, CA: Scholars, 1983. Landes, George M. "The Material Civilization of the Ammonites." Biblical Archaeologist 24 (1961) 65-88. Pardee, Dennis. "Literary Sources for the History of Palestine and Syria II. Hebrew, Moabite, Ammonite and Edomite Inscriptions." Andrews University Seminary Studies 17 (1979) 47-70. Puech, Émil, and Alexander Rofé. "Inscription de la Citadelle d'Amman." Revue biblique 80 (1973) 531-46. Younker, Randall W. "Rabbah." In Anchor Bible Dictionary, edited by D. N. Freedman, 5:598-600. New York: Doubleday, 1992. Zayadine, Fawzi. "Recent Excavations on the Citadel of Amman." Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 18 (1973) 17-35. Zayadine, Fawzi. "Recent Excavations on the Citadel of Amman." Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 31 (1987) 299-311. |
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