More on the Gath Altar

Aren hints that there also may be an inscription unearthed too…

This afternoon, we took out the altar from Area D. A truck with a crane came to the field and after we tipped over the altar, picked it up and put in our pickup truck. We will take to Bar-Ilan and place it in the lab for further analysis. It was quite cool removing it! Earlier today when I was walking by the pottery washing, I stopped and looked at one of the trays – and to my surprise, found a large sherd from a storage jar which had on it a ver … Read More

via The Tell es-Safi/Gath Excavations Official (and Unofficial) Weblog