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| | The Schoyen Collection: Palaeography -- 4.6. Aramaic, Hebrew and Syriac scriptsscripts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | MS in Aramaic on clay, Syria, 613(?) BC, 1 tablet, 8,6x5,4x2,6 cm, 7+10+3 lines in Aramaic cursive documentary script, 3 seal impressions of a crescent moon above a schematic winged sun disc, of Sharash-sharru-ibnu the Turtanu. |
 | | BC, 1 fragment of a scroll, 3,3x1,6 cm, 1 partial column, (original column 20x13 cm), part of 4 lines (originally 29 lines), in a formal Hasmonaean Hebrew book script; a fragment, 0,7x0,8 cm, with the offset of the letters Shin and Lamed; 2 uninscribed fragments, 2,0x0,7 cm and 0,5x0,5 cm. |
 | | BC, predating the earliest square Hebrew script introduced by the priest and scribe Ezra in Jerusalem after the return of the Jews from the Babylonian exile around 400 BC. |
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