Joseph Lauer informs us that Luke Chandler writes
A few people have inquired about the new Khirbet Qeiyafa inscription discovered in the 2012 season. I asked Yossi Garfinkel about it last week when I drove up to Chattanooga (from Tampa!) to catch his presentation at Southern Adventist University. He said they have made good progress on it and may publish something in a few months. He wouldn’t release any details about it during his presentation but told me beforehand that the results are “very interesting.”
I saw the new inscription when it was found last summer. It is from the late-11th/early-10th century Iron Age level at Qeiyafa. It is readable. I’ll post details here as soon as they are released to the public.
Well that’s not much to go on. A second inscription which is legible and ‘interesting’ which won’t be published for several months. No, that’s not at all helpful. (Though to be fair the first inscription wasn’t ‘all that’- being rather both insubstantial and subject to wide ranging readings).
To be fair, as Chandler notes, the fact (if it is) of an inscription is probably more interesting than its contents. Details of script, location media etc. would really help…
Only the second inscription from Qeiyafa, you say? You mean this letter from King David to his mom was a fake? Surely not!