discovered text
written work (a composition of any type or length) that was made public only due to its discovery
Damascus Document
ancient Jewish document
ostracon
broken piece of pottery with inscription
Gezer calendar
small limestone tablet with an early Canaanite inscription
Ptolemaic Decrees
ancient Egyptian religious decrees
Lachish letters
canaanite inscriptions on clay sherds
Deuteronomic Code
law code set out in Deuteronomy 12–26
Temple Warning inscription
Ancient Second Temple inscription
Dipylon inscription
short text written on an ancient Greek pottery vessel dated to ca. 740 BC
Rosetta Stone decree
decree passed by a council of priests, inscribed on the Rosetta Stone
Taylor and Sennacherib Prisms
Records of the Assyrian king Sennacherib
Prayer of Nabonidus
legendary account of the punishment and healing of the Babylonian king Nabonidus
Community Rule
One of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Shanghai Museum bamboo slips
collection of ancient Chinese texts
Dead Sea scrolls
15,000 fragments of about 850 scrolls from ancient Judaism
Genesis Apocryphon
one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls
Priestly Code
law code, consisting of the majority of Leviticus and parts of Numbers, concerned with ritual and the priesthood, associated with the Priestly source in the documentary hypothesis
Lachish relief
Assyrian palace reliefs
Visions of Amram
aramaic texts found in Qumran cave 4