"'Oldest Hebrew script' is found"

[lethargic_man]

"Five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered, an archaeologist in Israel says," reports the BBC News site. "Preliminary investigations since the shard was found in July have deciphered some words, including judge, slave and king." It even provides a picture:

...which is fine for giving an impression to those who can't read Palaeo-Hebrew, and can't understand Hebrew, and is maddening to those of us who can! I've just spent the last five minutes googling other news sites, and can't find any better picture than this, which is just good enough to show that a letter aleph is being pointed to, and one or two other letters, but that's all.

How annoying!

(Of course, I'm sure if I but wait—possibly for proper publication—I will learn more.)

Comments

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can. Thank you for that. I know the meaning of the words in modern Hebrew but no in old.
Yes, you should have linguistics geekery icon. Maybe one with a table of different letters of different languages like the one you once showed on a piece of paper.