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FROM YITZHAK MAGEN, HAGGAI MISGAV, AND LEVANA TSFANIA, MOUNT GERIZIM EXCAVATIONS, VOL. 1 (JERUSALEM, 2004)

INTERACTIVE INSCRIPTION. Dedicatory inscriptions played a part in everyday worship at the temple on Mt. Gerizim. Written in Aramaic on a 1.2-by-3-foot stone block fragment, the above inscription (no. 1) records a gift offered by a man named El‘azar to the temple: “That which El‘azar [son of …] offered [for himself and] for his wife Imma and [his] so[ns …].”