Deutsch and Heltzer are of the same opinion; they present it as another inscription from Khirbet el-Kom. In his publication of the el-Kom materials, Dever describes the unfortunate situation at the site as follows: During the brief excavations there the writer personally observed nearly a hundred robbed tombs; and several thousand pieces would be a conservative estimate of the pottery from the site seen in the village or later in the hands of Jerusalem dealers.
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