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The drawn hieroglyphic signs found at Hazor. The article does not provide a transliteration. To us only 2-3 sign are readable. The two birds are not typical enough and the, a bit damaged circle with rays, we assume, may represent a sun disk with rays. This piece was found in the destruction layer of the podium complex and was thought to represent the title of an important Egyptian official. However, if the rayed sign (5) is a solar disk with rays it may be part of the cultic decor of the room it belonged to and probably of the time of the destruction of Jerusalem in the south. The conventionally derived date for Ramses II angle is probably based on the sign for `S' (2) and the perhaps the general appearance of the piece. However, the date would be ca. 600 BC or later in the revised chronology.
[BAR, Mar/Apr 2006, p. 37.]
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