![]() Epigraphic analysis of the tomographic data revealed a formulaic curse written in a proto-alphabetic script likely dating to Late Bronze Age II. The tomographically reconstructed data were subjected to advanced processing to reveal the hidden text. A team of scientists performed X-ray tomographic measurements with different scanning parameters. The tablet could not be opened without damaging it. The earlier and smaller round altar lay underneath the geometric center of the later and larger rectangular altar. The east dump pile, from which the object emerged, contained the discarded matrix from two structures that he interpreted as altars dated to the Late Bronze Age II and Iron Age I. Ebal to examine the discarded material from Adam Zertal’s 1982–1989 excavation yielded a small, folded lead tablet.
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