2,700 Year Old Hebrew Inscription – Found by Joe Uziel!!!!
Yesterday, it was announced that a 2,700 year-old Hebrew Inscription was found in the City of David – these excavations just so happen to be under the watchful eye of our very own Joe Uziel. Way to go Joe!
See the story here.
The Tel Burna Excavation Project 
August 20, 2013 at 6:59 am
Wow, according to the article, the writing appears to be older than the bowl! The letters are dated to the 8th century and the bowl is dated to 586. Did I miss something?
August 20, 2013 at 6:51 pm
Hi Benj,
From an epigraphic perspective, the style of writing and letters date to the 8-7th Century BCE. The bowl itself dates to the 7th Century BCE. It was found in a fill that covered the lower slope of the City of David that contains mostly 7th Century finds and seems to be a result of the destruction and abandonment of Jerusalem at the end of the Iron Age. so basically – the artifact dates to the 7th Century BCE, but is redeposited in a fill dating slightly later.
Joe