Canaanite comb inscription reported

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StephenGoranson
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Canaanite comb inscription reported

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Thanks to Joseph Lauer.
press release:
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-sentence- ... -plea.html

journal article, “A Canaanite’s Wish to Eradicate Lice on an Inscribed Ivory Comb from Lachish” was published online in the Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology 2: 76–119,
https://doi.org/10.52486/01.00002.4 and also at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364318023 and https://www.academia.edu/88746893/

LINK TO PHOTOS AND ARTICLE: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... share_link

ASOR meeting abstracts:
https://tinyurl.com/3j2k3fbh (p. 37)

news reports, among others:
https://www.haaretz.com/00000184-56c1-d ... f3777f0000

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ivory-lic ... -sentence/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... -lice-comb
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video Re: Canaanite comb inscription reported

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A video, about 5 minutes, about the inscribed comb:
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0f3svrh ... t-alphabet
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