Ekronite Language
The Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription, or simply the Ekron inscription, is a royal dedication inscription found in its Archaeological context, primary context, in the ruins of a temple during the 1996 excavations of Ekron, Israel.Gitin, Dothan, and Naveh, 1997, p. 1 It is known as Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften, KAI 286. It is incised on a rectangular-shaped limestone block with five lines and 71 characters, and mentions Ekron, thus confirming the identification of the site, as well as five of its rulers, including Ikausu (Achish), son of Padi, who built the sanctuary. Padi and Ikausu are known as kings of Ekron from the late 8th- and 7th-century Neo-Assyrian Royal Annals.Gitin, Seymour (2003), Israelite and Philistine Cult and the Archaeological Record, in ''Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past'', p. 287, "Two of the five names of city's rulers mentioned in the inscription - Padi and Ikausu - appear in the Neo-Assyrian Annals as kings of ‘amqar(r)una, tha ...
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