“5383. Inscription found on a pillar in a burial cave near Lachis, the hill country of Judea. The inscription written in ancient Hebrew is dated to c. 8th C.BC, The shape of a hand is sunken carved in the middle of the soft stone. The text reads as follows: 1. Uriyahu was the one who wrote it 2. blessed be Uriyahu by Yahweh 3. and his Egyptian (servant) by his a she rah, and here is his handprint 4. (hand in sunken relief) for Oniyahu 5. by his asherah 6. and by his a..erah”
Photograph by Zev Radovan