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<blockquote data-quote="Brock" data-source="post: 2126508" data-attributes="member: 544716">Archaeologists digging at Tell es-Safi in central Israel, the accepted location of the biblical home of Goliath (&quot;Gath of the Philistines&quot;) have unearthed a shard of pottery bearing an inscription, written in Proto-Semitic letters, consisting of two names &quot;alwt&quot; and &quot;wlt&quot;), which are etymologically quite similar to the name Goliath, and most probably are semitizised versions of an Indo-European name (similar, for example to Lydian Alyattes). This find demonstrates that the biblical description of the figure Goliath (and in particular, his name), fits in with the cultural millieu that existed in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age IIA (10th-9th centuries BC).The shard dates back to around 950 BC, within 70 years of when biblical chronology asserts David squared off against Goliath, making it the oldest Philistine inscription ever found, the archaeologists said.Scientists made the discovery at Tell es-Safi, a dig site in southern Israel thought to be the location of the Philistine city of Gath.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brock, post: 2126508, member: 544716"] Archaeologists digging at Tell es-Safi in central Israel, the accepted location of the biblical home of Goliath ("Gath of the Philistines") have unearthed a shard of pottery bearing an inscription, written in Proto-Semitic letters, consisting of two names "alwt" and "wlt"), which are etymologically quite similar to the name Goliath, and most probably are semitizised versions of an Indo-European name (similar, for example to Lydian Alyattes). This find demonstrates that the biblical description of the figure Goliath (and in particular, his name), fits in with the cultural millieu that existed in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age IIA (10th-9th centuries BC). The shard dates back to around 950 BC, within 70 years of when biblical chronology asserts David squared off against Goliath, making it the oldest Philistine inscription ever found, the archaeologists said. Scientists made the discovery at Tell es-Safi, a dig site in southern Israel thought to be the location of the Philistine city of Gath. [/QUOTE]

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