Re: Needs help identifying script

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2007 - 19:50:37 CDT

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>> Dear Ms. Anderson:
>> Attached some script details of some lead plates.
>> We have no idea what they could be but it was suggested that it
>>
> might have
>
>> been an archaic form of Samaritan.
>> Could you refer us to an expert who could perhaps identify it.
>>

Well, it's definitely an old Semitic. Though it looks a little more
Aramaic than Samaritan/Hebrew. It looks rather like what you see on
some old coins, but I'm not expert enough to pin down the exact period.

Let me see if I can make out some words, I'll write if I can.

~mark

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