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A Canaanite's Wish to Eradicate Lice on an Inscribed Ivory Comb from Lachish
Daniel Vainstub, Madeleine Mumcuoglu, Michael G. Hasel et al., 2022.
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Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology 2: 76-119. Seventeen letters in seven words on an ivory comb, read as a wish that the comb root out lice; the first full sentence in the early Canaanite alphabet, dated on letter forms to about 1700 BC (no stratigraphic date).
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Daniel Vainstub, Madeleine Mumcuoglu, Michael G. Hasel, Katherine M. Hesler, Miriam Lavi, Rivka Rabinovich, Yuval Goren, & Yosef Garfinkel (2022). A Canaanite's Wish to Eradicate Lice on an Inscribed Ivory Comb from Lachish. https://doi.org/10.52486/01.00002.4
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et al.. “A Canaanite's Wish to Eradicate Lice on an Inscribed Ivory Comb from Lachish.” 2022. https://doi.org/10.52486/01.00002.4.