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239 and dialect of Israel, certain other inscriptions illustrate those of Judea, the most important being the Siloam inscription (Fig. 116), attributed to about 700 B.C. and discovered in 1880 in the wall of an aqueduct.
Fig. 116 The Siloam inscription
The famous "Lachish letters," eighteen in number, were discovered in 1935 at Tell ed-Duweir (in southern Palestine), the ancient Lachish,
