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THE ALPHABET this high royal official is a theophorus name beginning with the element Qws, probably Qôs or Qaus, the name of the chief Edomite deity. As Prof. Albright points out, the forms of some letters of the seal impressions
Fig. 121-The Moabite or Mesh Stone "are strikingly like those in the six-letter graffito" on the aforementioned jug. The impressions seem to belong to the seventh century B.C.
There is no doubt that this script was a sub-division of the Canaanite main branch, and probably of the early Hebrew branch, and it seems to have been the writing employed by the ancient Edomites.
