Siloam
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The Siloam Inscription was carved in ancient Hebrew in a water tunnel under the City of David in Jerusalem. It was discovered in 1880 and is now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museums.
The inscription describes the moment when two teams of workers digging from opposite ends met inside the tunnel. The tunnel is usually identified with the one built by King Hezekiah around 700 B.C. to bring water from the Gihon Spring into the city. It is one of the most important examples of Hebrew prose written in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
The inscription describes the moment when two teams of workers digging from opposite ends met inside the tunnel. The tunnel is usually identified with the one built by King Hezekiah around 700 B.C. to bring water from the Gihon Spring into the city. It is one of the most important examples of Hebrew prose written in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
- Language Family
- Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic)
- Subgroup
- Semitic
- Branch
- Northwest Semitic
- Subbranch
- Canaanite