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Clay tablets of Deir AllaTell Deir Alla, Bileam or Balaam inscriptionTell Deir Alla, Pottery, dating from Iron IITell Deir Alla, Bileam or Balaam inscriptionTell Deir Alla, Goblet dating from Late BronzeTell Deir Alla, Bileam or Balaam inscriptionTell Deir Alla, Claytablet with inscription in a not identified languageTell Deir Alla, Claytablet with inscription in a not identified languageTell Deir Alla, Bileam or Balaam inscriptionTell Deir Alla, Bileam or Balaam inscriptionTell Deir Alla, Bileam or Balaam inscriptionTell Deir Alla, Bileam or Balaam inscriptionTell Deir Alla, Bileam or Balaam inscriptionTell Deir Alla, Anklet dating from Iron IITell Deir Alla, Bileam or Balaam inscriptionTell Deir Alla, Arrowheads dating from Iron IITell Deir Alla, Bileam or Balaam inscriptionTell Deir Alla, Gold earring, dating from Iron II

Location:

  • Jordan, Dayr ‘Allā
  • geo:32.196583,35.62043
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -840 / -760

Class:

  • Building (other)
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=23803

Annotations

Deir 'Alla Inscription: inscription, found in the Iron Age town of Deir 'Alla, mentioning the Biblical prophet Balaam. http://www.livius.org/de-dh/deir_alla/deir_alla_inscr.html.

Bala'am Son of Be'or Inscription discovered on Dajr Alla in Jordan on fragments of a plastered wall (119 pieces) is an Aramaic inscription dates to ca. 840-760 BC.

See:

  1. Thomas Middlebrook, Deir 'Alla: Stories of the Plaster Prophet , Deerfield, Illinois  2012
  2. Eveline J. van der Steen, Tribes and Territories in Transition: The Central East Jordan Valley in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age : a Study of the Sources, Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta 130, Peeters Publishers, 2004, different pages.
  3. Piotr Bienkowski, Jordan: Crossroads of the Near East in: Treasures from an Ancient Land: The Art of Jordan, Piotr Bienkowski eds., Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton 1991, p.14
  4. idem: Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics, Tom 2, Peeters Publishers, Leuven 1975, pp. 103-170
  5. Biblical Archaeology 12: Deir ‘Alla Inscription (Balaam Inscription), 2011 - https://theosophical.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/biblical-archaeology-11-deir-alla-inscription-balaam-inscription/
  6. Jona Lendering - http://www.livius.org/sources/content/deir-alla-inscription/?
  7. Jeannette Boertien, Unravelling the Threads, Textiles and Shrines in the Iron Age. Comparison of Deir 'Alla in the Jordan Valley and Kuntillet 'Ajrud in the Northern Sinai in: Sacred and Sweet. Studies on the Material Culture of Tell Deir 'Alla and Tell Abu Sarbut. Ed. by M.L.Steiner and E.J. Van der Steen. Peeters, Leuven, 2008, pp. 135-151.
  8. http://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-balaam-son-of-beor-inscription-tell-deir-alla-succoth-1400-750bc.htm
  9. https://theosophical.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/biblical-archaeology-11-deir-alla-inscription-balaam-inscription/

Relevant museums

Amman, Jordan Museum

The new historical museum of Jordan; substantial archaeological collection.


Nearby

Deir Alla Tablets Inscriptions

Deir Alla clay inscribed tablets.

Deir 'Alla, Sanctuary

The sanctuary complex in NE part of tell.

Deir Alla

Biblical Pethor? Dajr Alla.


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