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Zayit Stone
The Zayit Stone is a 38-pound limestone boulder excavated from Tel Zayit (Zeitah) in southwest Israel (the Beth Guvrin Valley about 35 miles from Jerusalem), territory belonging to the kingdom of Judah, with an incised Paleo-Hebrew abecedary (19 letters carved in the first line; 3 in the second line with 2 terminating symbols) and remnants of several other inscriptions (3 words plus 2 pairs of terminating symbols):
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