Ancient Hebrew Wall Ornament, Ceramic Plaque
Designed and handmade by Israeli artist 

This decorative plaque / tile features a translation of ancient to Modern Hebrew, with a legend of the Modern Hebrew Alphabet characters and their corresponding characters from over 3000 years ago, and with English transliteration for every character (How to pronounce the Hebrew - written in phonetic English) Highly detailed, crafted from Ceramic, hand painted and covered with glossy protective varnish. Small wire behind for easy wall hanging on a nail.

The writing is Phoenician, used throughout the entire Mediterranean basin during the time of King Solomon and the first Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, around 1050 B.C.E.  From this alphabet, the Latin and Arabic alphabets have evolved (read more below).

Size (HxW):  5 x 3. 3 inch  /  12.5 x 8.5 cm

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Each one is unique and individually hand made, therefore no two are alike. All Plaques are hand made in Limited Editions, signed and numbered by the artist, made in Israel. Comes in original box with COA (Certificate of Authenticity)

Biblical Hebrew, also called Classical Hebrew, is the archaic form of the Hebrew language, a Canaanite Semitic language spoken in the area known as Canaan between theJordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Biblical Hebrew is attested from about the 10th century BCE, and persisted through the Second Temple period (ending in 70 CE). Biblical Hebrew eventually developed into Mishnaic Hebrew, which was spoken until the 2nd century CE. Biblical Hebrew is best-attested in the Hebrew Bible, a document which reflects various stages of the Hebrew language in its consonantal skeleton, as well as a vocalicsystem which was added later, in the Middle Ages. There is also some evidence of regional dialectal variation, including differences between Biblical Hebrew as spoken in the northernKingdom of Israel and in the southern Kingdom of Judah.

Biblical Hebrew has been written with a number of different writing systems. The Hebrews adopted the Phoenician script around the 12th century BCE, which developed into the Paleo-Hebrew script. This was retained by the Samaritans, who use the descendent Samaritan script to this day. However the Aramaic script gradually displaced the Paleo-Hebrew script for the Jews, and it became the source for the modern Hebrew alphabet. All of these scripts were lacking letters to represent all of the sounds of Biblical Hebrew, though these sounds are reflected in Greek and Latin transcriptions of the time. These scripts originally only indicated consonants, but certain letters, known as matres lectionis, became increasingly used to mark vowels. In the Middle Ages various systems of diacritics were developed to mark the vowels in Hebrew manuscripts; of these, only the Tiberian system is still in wide use (from Wikipedia)

 


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