Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

To All:

Here is a photograph of a stone written in what appears to be very ancient 
Hebrew or very similar Semitic language. It is the top stone on this page. I 
have seen photographs of this stone elsewhere in books, but this is the only 
example I know of online.

http://www.viewzone.com/FTscandanavia.html

As far as I know, writing of this time was written boustrophedron and in this 
particular case, reading left to right, I transliterate the following

L(QBR.Z.LHSR.H(DW.DMYT.LMRT

I think there is a missing dot between L( and QBR.

My translation reads, “A grave belittles this (music and dance) to cause to 
turn aside the witness of it, you liken it to bitterness.” (reminding me of 
Proverbs 14:13)

This fits into two threads we had recently, one where we question the 
earliest example where a lamad hey verb is changed to a yod and why are there 
words sometimes written with a final hey and sometimes without.

(As for the site where I found it, the rest of it is rather wierd, I stumbled 
on it as a result of a Googlewhack. If someone knows a more reputable site 
where a photograph of this stone appears, I’d rather link there than here. 
The only reason I dare reference this site at all is because I have seen 
photographs of this stone in books.)

Karl W. Randolph.
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