Fireworks or Confetti?

Deliberate Strokes or Inadvertent Scratches? The inscription was created by 24 separate strokes with a specific type of engraving tool which was equipped with a sharp bifurcated tip (27 strokes if one includes the underscores). The incisions which are made by such a...

Metrics provide more evidence

Earlier observations which are supported by the preceding images include: “1.2 Inscription. We examined all parts of the inscription with optivisors and a boom-supported stereomicroscope. For the purpose of this report, the “first part” of the inscription refers...

Fireworks or Confetti?

Deliberate Strokes or Inadvertent Scratches? The inscription was created by 24 separate strokes with a specific type of engraving tool which was equipped with a sharp bifurcated tip (27 strokes if one includes the underscores). The incisions which are made by such a...

Cleaning Cavities and Scratches

Since dried mud is compacted in the grooves that make up the inscription of CJO 704 (IAA 80.503) YESHUA (?) BEN/BAR YEHOSEF, the staff of UHL proposed cleaning the mud from the inscription in order to define the tools used in various parts of the inscription and to...