Notes on the Hebrew text and the topography of the books of Samuel; with an introduction on Hebrew palaeography and the ancient versions and facsimiles of inscriptions and maps . stic of the later forms. The3 in 1. 5 is very abnormal; but this may be due to the inexperienceof the engraver. The letters at the lower left-hand corner are read byLidzbarski as 365,—perhaps [Pi]^3K ^. Until the discovery of the Gezer Inscription, the Inscription on thewall of the tunnel of Siloam (Plate II) was considered to be the oldestknown Hebrew Inscription. The Pool of Siloam is situated at theextreme S. of th
Notes on the Hebrew text and the topography of the books of Samuel; with an introduction on Hebrew palaeography and the ancient versions and facsimiles of inscriptions and maps . stic of the later forms. The3 in 1. 5 is very abnormal; but this may be due to the inexperienceof the engraver. The letters at the lower left-hand corner are read byLidzbarski as 365,—perhaps [Pi]^3K ^. Until the discovery of the Gezer Inscription, the Inscription on thewall of the tunnel of Siloam (Plate II) was considered to be the oldestknown Hebrew Inscription. The Pool of Siloam is situated at theextreme S. of the Eastern hill of Jerusalem (on the N. of whichthe Temple formerly stood), near the entrance to the Tyropoeonvalley; and a conduit or tunnel cut through the rock from the Virgins 1 See further PEFQS. 1909, 26 ff. (Lidzbarski), 30 ff. (G. B. Gray), 113 ff.(Daiches, on Babylonian parallels), ii8f. (Dalman), 189 ff. (Gray), 194 f. (Lidz-barski) ; lAAzb^Lxski^s Ephemeris, iii. 37 ff. (notice, p. 45, the parallel from Tose/ia,p. 215, 1. 15 ff., ed. Zuckermandel); Marti, ZAIV. 1909, p. 222 ff. ^ The line above a letter indicates that the reading is not quite certain. Plate II.
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