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PHOTO BY CLARA AMIT, COURTESY YOSEF GARFINKEL

QEIYAFA OSTRACON. Found at the site of Khirbet Qeiyafa in Judah, the Qeiyafa Ostracon has five lines of text and dates to c. 1000 B.C.E. Written with ink on a 6-by-6-inch piece of pottery, the inscription is a late example of the Proto-Sinaitic (“Early Canaanite”) script. Although the inscription mentions the words “king,” “servant,” and “judge,” there is no clear consensus about its meaning.