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Late Semitic Script
| AHRC ID#: |
24 |
| Date of Writing: |
135 CE |
| Location Discovered: |
Wadi Murabb'at, near the Dead Sea, Israel |
| Date of Discovery: |
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| Current Location: |
Israel Museum, Jerusalem Israel |
| Language: |
Hebrew |
| Writing Surface: |
Papyrus |
| Transliteration: |
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| Translation: |
From Shimeon Ben Kosiba to Yeshua Ben Galgoula and to the men of the fort, peace. I take heaven as my witness against me that unless you destroy the Galileans who are with you, every man, I will put fetters on your feet as I did to Ben Aflul. |
| Comments: |
This letter written in the second century CE (AD) shows that the Hebrew language was still in common use even to this time. Shimeon Ben Kosiba (Simon Bar Kockba) was the leader of the second Jewish revolt of 135 CE. Contained within this letter is the coloquiol "tashmiym" (last word, third line) for "et hashamayim".
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