Ammonite(76 words)
[German version]
Canaanite dialect very similar to Phoenician and used by the Ammonites in the region around Rabbath Ammon. There is very little written evidence c. 9th-7th cents. BC): citadel inscriptions from Amman, writing on a receptacle (Tell Siran bottle) and approximately 150 stamping seals.
Müller-Kessler, Christa (Emskirchen)
Bibliography
W. R. Garr, Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestina, 1000-586 B.C.E., 1985
L. Herr, The Scripts of Ancient Northwest Semitic Seals, 1978
K. P. Jackson, The Ammonite Language of the Iron Age, 1983.
Cite this page
Müller-Kessler, Christa (Emskirchen),
“Ammonite”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 17 May 2022 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e118250>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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