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October 2022
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Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology
An inscription in early Canaanite script from Lachish, incised on an ivory comb, is presented. The 17 letters, in early pictographic style, form seven words expressing a plea against lice.
... It should be remembered that the archaeologists are still discovering ancient artefacts and that there is hope the small datasets of undeciphered inscriptions will be expanded in the near future. Recently, in 2022, scientists succeeded in translating the oldest sentence written in the world's first alphabet (Vainstub et al. 2022;Osborne 2022), and this gives us hope that new discoveries, translations, and decipherments of ancient inscriptions will follow in the future. ...
October 2022
Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology
