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Epigraphic ANE
From Rollston's Epigraphy slideshow 10/03
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10/23/2008

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Behistun Inscription (languages, concerning, scholar who deciphered the third language)
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Old Persian/Elamite/Akkadian. Records expeditions of Darius the Great. Henry Rawlinson deciphered Akkadian.
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Longest reign noted on the Sumerian King List
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64,800 years (antediluvian period)
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Code of Hammurabi (Date, god, nation)
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18th century BCE; Shamash gave to Amorite King ruling in Babylon (Hammurabi).
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What vocation was mentioned in the Mari tablets once thought to be unique to Israel (also date & language)?
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Reference to male/female prophets. 18th century BCE, Old Babylonian.
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Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (date/nation he ruled, story told on Obelisk)
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Neo-Assyrian King 859-825 BCE, depiction of Ahab and Jehu's tribute (both of Israel), note the picture is of Jehu bowing to Shalmaneser III.
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Sennacherib Taylor Prism (date of prism, nation, depiction).
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701, Neo-Assyrian, depicts Sennacherib's campaign in the Levant.
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Name the King of Judah who Sennacherib had "traped like a bird in a cage" (as well as this king's reign).
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King Hezekiah, 715-687 BCE
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Cyrus Cylinder (date, depiction).
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538 BCE, Edict of Cyrus stating that captives in babylon were set free.
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Rosetta Stone (languages, date/discovered by)
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Two Egyptian variatins (Hieroglyphic, demotic) and Greek; discovered in 1799 CE by Napoleon's troops.
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Merneptah Stele (date, importance)
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Late 13th Century BCE, first extra-biblical reference to Israel.
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Ser abit el-Hadim (date, importance)
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18th Century BCE, site where earliest alphabetic inscriptions were found.
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Tell Fakhariyeh Statue (languages, who commissioned the inscription, and what god was it inscribed to)
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Aramaic on back, Akkadian on front. Had-Yithi commissioned the inscription to the god Hadad of Sikanu.
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Gilgamesh Fragment (date, where found)
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Late Bronze age, found in a dig dump in Megiddo.
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Mesha Inscription (language/king/naion/god)
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Moabite, Mesha King of Moab, Kemosh.
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Tell Siran Bottle (language, type of inscription)
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Ammonite, Royal inscription.
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Kuntillet Ajrud Inscription (date, importance)
Definition
Early 8th century, refers to Yahweh and His Asherah, also refers to other local manifestations of gods.
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Khirbet el-Qom Inscription (language, importance)
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Old Hebrew, also mentions Yahweh and his Asherah.
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Siloam Tunnel Inscription (language, commissioning king, use of tunnel)
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Hebrew, King Hezekiah of Judah, used to get water into the city in case of seige from Assyrians - 2 Chr. 32:3-4
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