names in hieroglyphic Egyptian(4). Outside the biblical texts, Old Hebrew is represented by a considerable body of epigraphical materials such as the famous Gezer agricultural calendar (10th cent.), Samaria ostraca (early 8th cent.), the Siloam inscription (ca. 700), over one hundred ostraca from Arad in the Negev (mostly from the end of the 6th cent. B.C.), and 22 Lachish ostraca (from about the same period as the Arad ostraca). The inscription of Mesha, King of Moab (cf. 2Kg 3. 4) (ca. 850),
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