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The Gezer calendar, 10th century B.C., discovered in 1908 by Irish archaeologist R. A. S. Macalister. The verse inscribed on soft limestone is a ditty which lists the months by their agricultural tasks. It seems to have been a schoolchild’s exercise tablet. Before the discovery of the Izbet Sartah sherd the Gezer calendar was considered the oldest Hebrew inscription of any length.