Lachish Ostracon #5 Recreation (Clay pottery shard about 3 inches by 4 inches). Discovered in 1935-38 by J.L.Starkey in a small guardroom adjoining the outer gate of Lachish sometime shortly before the sack of Jerusalem in 586BC. 10 lines of writing. Twice the Tetragramaton YHWH the name of God is written. For a translation see COS 3.42D, or ANET, 322.
