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Gezer Calendar

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The Gezer Calendar is a small limestone tablet inscribed in an early Hebrew script and discovered at the site of ancient Gezer, generally dated to around the tenth century BCE. Its text lists the agricultural year in a sequence of months or seasons grouped by farming tasks such as harvesting, planting and tending vines. It is among the oldest known examples of Hebrew writing and is an important source for understanding the agricultural calendar of the early Iron Age Levant.

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