Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Beth Loya, 6th century BCE. Burial Inscription.

6th century BCE, earlier than bloy0002 and bloy0003 Judaea Beth Loya31.563611,34.928056

Western wall of the antechamber, 1.5 meters above the ground

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יהוה אלהי כל הארץ הרי יהד לו לאלהי ירשלם

Yahveh (is) the God of the whole earth; the mountains of Judah belong to him, to the God of Jerusalem.

"… the letters were not always carefully written—they are indeed graffiti ... although [this inscription] was written by a person with fairly good handwriting." The cave containing this inscription may have "belonged to a family of Levite singers." "From the point of view of content these inscriptions are well suited to the period of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib conquered forty-six towns in Judah and kept Hezekiah besieged in Jerusalem 'like a caged bird'… It may be that the people who happened to come to this cave and write the various inscriptions did not do so in the course of a regular visit to their family tomb, but perhaps during the burial of one of their members who was killed by the enemy; or perhaps in an hour of danger, when the armies of the enemy passed this way, they found refuge in the family burial cave until the danger was over."

יהוה אלהי כל הארץ הרי יהד לו לאלהי ירשלם

A 90-92