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The Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II was the first of this type of inscription found anywhere in the Levant (modern Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria). [1] [2]The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, [3] are the primary extra-Biblical source for understanding of the societies and histories of the ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans.
Canaan as it was possessed both in Abraham and Israels dayes with the stations and bordering nations. The John Speed map of Canaan, formally titled "Canaan as it was possessed both in Abraham and Israels dayes with the stations and bordering nations," is an ancient wall map of the Land of Israel drawn by the English historian and cartographer John Speed in 1595.
Canaan [i] [1] [2] was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Assyrian Empires converged or overlapped.
The inscription consists of nine letters. The authors of the editio princeps offer to read two words on the inscription, ʿbd meaning "servant, slave" and npt meaning "honey, nectar." [54] The inscription is, however, too fragmentary to suggest much else but represents one of the earliest examples of alphabetic writing from the Levant.
In the 13th century BCE, copies of the column inscriptions ordered by Seti I or by Ramesses II at Amara, Nubia, six groups of Shasu are mentioned: those of sʿrr, of rbn, of smʾt, of wrbr, of yhw, and of pysps. [10] [11] The Shasu continued to dominate the hill country of Canaan (Cis-Jordan) and Trans-Jordan regions. The Shasu had become so ...
The Inscription of King Mesha: 320–321: The Moabite Stone: Siloam inscription: 2.28: The Siloam Tunnel Inscription: 321: The Siloam Inscription: Yehimilk inscription: 2.29: The Inscription of King Yahimilk: 653–654: Yehimilk of Byblos: Kilamuwa Stela: 2.30: The Kulamuwa Inscription: 654–655: Kilamuwa of Y'dy-Sam'al: Yehawmilk Stele: 2.32 ...
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Kadesh or Qadesh or Cades (Biblical Hebrew: קָדֵשׁ, from the root קדש "holy" [1]) is a place-name that occurs several times in the Hebrew Bible, describing a site or sites located south of, or at the southern border of, Canaan and the Kingdom of Judah in the kingdom of Israel.