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Photo by Bruce and Kenneth Zuckerman; West Semitic Research Project |
Language: | Ammonite (a West Semitic Language) |
| Medium: | gray-black basalt? | |
| Size: | ? cm high ? 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: | 1966? | |
| Current Location: | Amman Archaeological Museum Amman, Jordan | |
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(Adapted from Fulco 1978) | ||
| [. . . m]lkm . bnh . lk . mb't . sbbt [. . .] | 1 | [. . . Mi]lkom, he has constructed for you the precinct entrances [. . .] |
| [. . . ]. kkl . msbb clk . mt ymtn [. . .] | 2 | [. . .]that all who threaten you shall surely die [. . .] |
| [. . .]khd . 'khd[] wkl . mcrb [. . .] | 3 | [. . .] I shall surely destroy, and all who enter [. . .] |
| [. . .]wbkl . sdrt yl nn sdq[m . . .] | 4 | [. . .] and amidst all its columns the just shall reside [. . .] |
| [. . .]l . tdlt bdlt . btn krh [. . .] | 5 | [. . .] there will hang from its doors an ornament[. . .] |
| [. . .]h . tŠc . bbn . 'lm | 6 | [. . .] will be offered within its portico |
| [. . .]wŠ[. . .]h . wn[. . .] | 7 | [. . .] ?? [. . .] |
| [. . . ]Šlm . lk wŠ[lm] | 8 | [. . .]peace to you and pe[ace . . .] |
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Transliteration of special characters
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| 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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