1 jan 700 ano antes da era comum - Siloam Inscription

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https://www.lavia.org/english/Archivo/Siloeen.htm

The Siloam inscription is a memorial inscription of the construction by king Hezekiah, of a corridor hewed through the rock on the 7th century b.C. and designed to carry the water from the Gihon fountain to the pool of Siloam in Zion, the heart of the old town of Jerusalem.

This tunnel was discovered in 1880, and was examined by reputed archaeologists like Edward Robinson, Sir Charles Wilson y Sir Charles Warren, but the inscription remained unnoticed. According to the Easton Bible Dictionary (1897), this inscription in paleo-Hebrew characters, one of the oldest Hebrew inscriptions of this kind, was noticed by a young man, on the east side wall, about 6 meters far from the tunnel entrance, while walking through the corridor of the Siloam pool.

In a robbery intent, the inscription was cut off the rock and broken in pieces, but fortunately and thanks to the British Consul in Jerusalem, the fragments were put back together and kept in the Ancient Oriental Museum of Istanbul, and were some time later, deciphered by professor A.H. Sayce.

English Transliteration of the Inscription:

1st line - … … the tunnel ( )e This is the story of its excavation, when
2nd line - - the mattocks dug one towards the other and 3 cubits of excavation(?) were left … … someone's voice… …
3rd line - a call from the other side was heard, there was a reverberation (zedah = archaic word?) on the rock, to the right and to the left. And on the day
4th line - the tunnel (was finished) the rock excavators hewed trough, each man toward the other side, mattock against mattock and
5th line - the water ran from the fountain to the pool, throughout 1.200 cubits ... ... ( and of 100? )... ...
6th line - was the height … the head of the excavators.

Archaeologists made use of carbon-14 to date the organic material in the tunnel's wall coating, and of uranium-thorium to date the stalactites grown inside it since the time its construction, and they found it was driven trough about 700 years b.C. supporting thus what the Bible reports, and cancelling the arguments of those who say it was built during the second century of our time.

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