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A “tel” or “tell” is an artificial mound formed by accumulated remains. “Tel” is the spelling used with Hebrew site names; “tell” is the spelling used with Arabic site names.

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A pithos (plural: pithoi) is a particularly large storage jar.

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An ostracon (plural: ostraca) is an inscribed potsherd.

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Hieratic script is a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing.

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Detailed scholarly analyses of this important ostracon will soon be published by A. Lemaire and H. Vermusée, and independently by Y. Naveh and O. Goldwasser.

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Arad was an important fortified Israelite city in the Negev where numerous ostraca were found on several levels of the six-times rebuilt citadel.

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This date cannot be precisely stated since the various proposed chronologies differ by a margin of some ten years.