Tell Es-Safi Inscription
The Tell es-Safi inscription was found in 2005 at the archaeological site at Tell es-Safi, identified with the biblical city of Gath. It was under the destruction layer at the beginning of Iron Age IIA (1000–925 BCE). Seven letters, interpreted as two words, are written on the piece of pottery: ''‘LWT'' (אלות) and ''WLT'' (ולת). This was initially suggested to be similar to what would have been the name of Goliath (גלית, ''GLYT''), the Biblical character from Gath. Written in Proto-Canaanite Proto-Canaanite is the name given to :(a) the Proto-Sinaitic script when found in Canaan, dating to about the 17th century BC and later. :(b) a hypothetical ancestor of the Phoenician script before some cut-off date, typically 1050 BCE, with an u ..., it is the “earliest known alphabetic inscription from an Iron Age Philistine site in a well defined context”. Bibliography The Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project* Maeir, A.M., Wimmer, S.J., Zukerman, A. et Demsky, A. ...
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