Commentary

This ostracon, discovered in 1974, is a body sherd from a heavy storage jar. Its maximum dimensions are 8.×.4 cm. It was, however, originally larger than its present version as evidenced by a modern break along its top. The text is a list of goods, written in Ammonite cursive script.¹ The ostracon is in the Amman Archaeological Museum, Ḥesbân No. H74.2092.² It has been dated paleographic…