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See Russell Gmirkin,“Tools, Slippage and the Tel Dan Inscription,” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 16.2 (2002), pp. 293–302. The same charge was made earlier by Niels Peter Lemche in “Face to Face: Biblical Minimalists Meet Their Challengers,” BAR 23:04.
Yod (nos. 1, 8, 15, 17) is written as a simple, short, approximately vertical stroke without a small crook, hook or loop at the top; this shape is cursive.
ayin (nos. 2 and 20) can be considered formal even if it appears sometimes in cursive script.
kuf (no. 3) is formal.
vav (nos. 4, 9, 14, 19) is a simple vertical stroke, longer than the yod, but also without a small crook, hook or loop at the top; this shape is cursive.
bet (nos. 5, 6) is formal.
resh (no. 7) is formal.
