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    31°41′47″N 34°57′26″E / 31.69639°N 34.95722°E / 31.69639; 34.95722 Khirbet Qeiyafa (Arabic: خربة قيافة), also known as Elah Fortress and in Hebrew as...
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    The Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in) ostracon (a trapezoid-shaped potsherd) with five lines of text, discovered in...
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    Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament. It has been identified by some with Khirbet Qeiyafa, an archaeological site on a hilltop overlooking the Elah Valley in...
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    discovered David's palace in 2013, 25 kilometres away, at Khirbet Qeiyafa. Excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, an Iron Age site in Judah, found an urbanized settlement...
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    Bible: a shrine model from the early half of the 10th century BCE in Khirbet Qeiyafa; and the Tel Motza temple, dated to the 9th century BCE and located...
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    it does not indicate the extent of its power. Recent excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, however, support the existence of a centrally organized and urbanized...
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  • however, a potsherd (ostracon) bearing an inscription was excavated at Khirbet Qeiyafa which has since been interpreted as representing a recognizably Hebrew...
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    Proto-Canaanite is clearly attested (Byblos inscriptions 10th–8th century BC, Khirbet Qeiyafa inscription c. 10th century BC). The first published group of Proto-Sinaitic...
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    In 2007, he began conducting excavations at the fortified city of Khirbet Qeiyafa. This site is dated to the early 10th century BC, the period of the...
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  • are the Hebrew Bible and inscriptions such as the Gezer calendar and Khirbet Qeiyafa pottery shard. All of the other Canaanite languages seem to have become...
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