(April 22, 2023) This pottery shard was found in temple support building 654 room E shown above. The temple had 5 support buildings in the elite zone of the city.
(Read right to left. Capital letters on seal. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verb is italic bold)- TaṢû Ru IWu (Levant Text 37.2)
(Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)- For pushing-away the eagle-vultures of redirection
Hebrew Translation Attempt
The discovery publication (Gitin and Ahituv, 2015) identified these letters as TŠRYM. All are correct except for the last letter. The /s/ letter is Ṣ in Alphabetic Akkadian and not the Š as it would be in Hebrew (Shibboleth change in Judges chapter 12).
The discovery authors could not give a Hebrew translation with these letters but instead arbitrary stated these letters formed one word and that word “should be equated” with the Hebrew word TŠWRE meaning “an interview fee.”
Gitin, Seymour, and Ahituv, Shmuel (2015) Two New Cultic Inscriptions from Seventh-Century B.C.E. Ekron. Online at: https://www.academia.edu/19785649/Two_New_Cultic_Inscriptions_from_Seventh-Century_B.C.E._Ekron
