RELIGST 2AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription, Merneptah Stele, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2AB3
• Professor: Dan Machiela

Document Summary

Last lecture (artifacts and nding them in scienti cally controlled digs/forgeries) Inscription as the merneptah stele (usually words scripted on to an artifact, monument, piece of pottery) when written it stays and doesn"t need to be re-written. Another sort of text is those written on perishable materials (written on leather or papyrus) i. e. dead sea scrolls. Ekron inscription (one of 5 philistine cities mentioned in bible) team of archeologists excavating this site and knew the site was philistine but didn"t know which city it was. They saw the inscription (which said ekron) they knew what city it was. Oxyrynchus (place in egypt) archeologists found a papyrus manuscript here. Papyrus and leather don"t age well and aren"t well preserved (inscriptions last forever) The crux of dating (chronological dating of artifacts) radiocarbon dating: looks for. C14 (carbon) in organic/plant materials and dates it.