entity · text_kuntillet_ajrud_inscriptions
Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions
Also known as: Ḥorvat Teman inscriptions
Fragmentary Hebrew and Phoenician-script inscriptions with blessings, divine names, poetry, personal names, and administrative/scribal content.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
830 BCE–760 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides primary evidence
The Inscriptions — Shmuel Ahituv, Esther Eshel, Zeev Meshel (2012)Primary edition and translation.
Locator: pp. 73-142; inscriptions by object and locus - informs · critiques interpretation
Religion at Kuntillet ʿAjrud — Jeremy D. Smoak, William M. Schniedewind (2019)Challenges automatic cult-site interpretation.
Locator: entire article
Research description
Fragmentary Hebrew and Phoenician-script inscriptions with blessings, divine names, poetry, personal names, and administrative/scribal content. The text is evidence for its own date, genre, and reception; any event or identity inference is modeled separately.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary evidence
The Inscriptions — Shmuel Ahituv, Esther Eshel, Zeev Meshel (2012)Primary edition and translation.
Locator: pp. 73-142; inscriptions by object and locus - informs · critiques interpretation
Religion at Kuntillet ʿAjrud — Jeremy D. Smoak, William M. Schniedewind (2019)Challenges automatic cult-site interpretation.
Locator: entire article
Referenced records
- Southern Levant · entity