The relic, which is just about the size of a postage stamp, ended up an ocean away from Israel in unclear circumstances.
The relic appears addressed to Ishmael, a common name during the later period of the Iron Age that also means “God will hear.”
Professor Shmuel Ahituv of Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel, who led the quest to bring the papyrus back to the Middle East, began his mission in 2018, when he discovered a photo of the scrap. He then teamed up with Eitan Klein, the head of the IAA’s Antiquities Theft Prevention Unit, to locate and bring it back.
How the scrap ended up in Montana remains unclear, and the IAA has declined to name the person who had the relic. According to Klein, the one-time owner inherited the artifact from his mother, who received it as a gift during a 1965 trip to Israel either from Joseph Sa’ad, a former curator at Jerusalem’s Rockefeller Museum, or Halil Iskander Kandu, a Bethlehem-based antiquities dealer also known as “Kando.
Joe Uziel, the co-director of the IAA’s Tel Burna Archaeological Project, authenticated the scrap by comparing its radiocarbon dating age with its handwriting style.“Each new document sheds further light on the literacy and the administration of the
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