From: joel AT exc.com (b-hebrew-request AT lists.ibiblio.org)
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Cc: dentm42 AT yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Pictures of the Recent Inscription
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:05:08 -0500 (EST)
>Reuters and the Jerusalem Post report that they have been able to
>read 3 words - "judge," "slave," and "king" on the piece, so they
>must be fairly certain of the language used. It's certainly an
>interesting trio of words to be found in the 50-100 characters on the
>piece.
Actually, those words could be the same in any of a number of similar
languages from the region, so that part of the text could be
translated without knowing for sure which language it was written in.