Lachish letters

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Lachish letters
Material	Clay ostraca
Writing	Phoenician script / Paleo-Hebrew script
Created	c. 590 BC
Discovered	1935
Discovered by	James Starkey
Present location	British Museum and Israel Museum
Identification	ME 125701 to ME 125707, ME 125715a, IAA 1938.127 and 1938.128

The Lachish Letters are a series of letters written in carbon ink containing ancient Israelite inscriptions in Ancient Hebrew on clay ostraca. The letters were discovered at the excavations at Lachish (Tell ed-Duweir).

The ostraca were discovered by British archaeologist James Leslie Starkey in January–February 1935, during the third campaign of the Wellcome excavations. They were published in 1938 by Professor Harry Torczyner (name later changed to Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai) and have been much studied since then. Seventeen of them are currently located in the British Museum in London;^[1] a smaller number (including Letter 6) are on permanent display at the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem.^[2] The primary inscriptions are known as KAI 192–199.