Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Bloy 0002

Beth Loya, 6th century BCE. Burial Inscription.

diagonal scratches overlapping with the right part of the inscription

6th Century BCE, later than bloy0001 and bloy0003 Judaea Beth Loya31.563611,34.928056 Burial cave on the eastern slope of the hill Western wall of the antechamber, 1.2 meters above the ground

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

Initial Entry corrected location Zev Radovan

המוריה אתה חננת נוה יה יהוה

The (Mount of) Moriah Thou hast favoured, the dwelling of Yah, Yahveh.

This inscription "is harder to read" than bloy0001 "because the incisions are not as deep... the script is also more careless" and because of the lines in the lines in the right corner.

The cave containing this inscription may have "belonged to a family of Levite singers."

"it would appear that [this inscription] develops this idea: Jerusalem has been saved; Yahveh has spared his holy city and his abode on Mount Moriah; so will the mountains of Judah also be saved and their inhabitants delivered."

"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."

המוריה אתה חננת נוה יה יהוה

B 90-92