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Negev, 4th century BCE. Ceramic Vessel. Commodity chit.
Body sherd of Iron Age or Persian-period jar, exterior and ware pink, interior gray, medium amount of white and black grits.
Taxonomies for IIP controlled values
קוסחנן לעליאל משתלן
גזיר
עצה
ב
Q[o]sḥanan to Aliel, BUNDLES,
stalks, 2.
On the .....1st of . [...].
Qst
The last line, line 3, is written upside down at the end of the inscription, and is probably the beginning of a different inscription. The word "bundles" occurs at the end of the line, showing no trace of a numeral. May be superfluous letters.