Re: Needs help identifying script

From: Andreas Stötzner (as@signographie.de)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2007 - 08:43:30 CDT

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    >> -----Original Message-----
    >> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:55 PM
    >> From: mike.sanders@ancientcultures.net
    >> Date: Tue, September 25, 2007 11:25 am
    >
    >> 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.
    >>
    >> Ever
    >> Michael S. Sanders
    >> Director of Expeditions and Research
    >> Ancient Cultures Research Foundation
    >>

    For a serious enquiry I miss some details:
    – is it truely ancient?
    – has a date been ascribed?
    – Found where, when and by who?
    – What is the context (of excavation, similar objects …)?
    – Where are the objects now?
    – better photographs –?

     From the very few details recognisable in those two images I would
    rather go for the Kanaanaean branch of Phoenician rather than the
    Aramaic or the Punic.
    Could possibly be some Kanaanaean-Makkabaean or Samaritan.

    A:S

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