The Tell Siran inscription is the second longest complete Ammonite text. As Kent P. Jackson noted
It
was written on a 10-cm-long bronze bottle in the Ammonite script, which was
derived from the Aramaic script which the scribes of Ammon had adopted near the
mid 8th-century . . . Cross dates the text to about 600 B.C. . . . The
inscription was first published by H. O. Thompson and F. Zayadine in 1973 . . .
(Kent P. Jackson, The Ammonite Language of the Iron Age [Harvard Semitic
Monographs 27; Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1983], 35)
The opening line of the text, and
translation thereof, as provided by Jackson (ibid., 36), reads thusly:
1.
m’bd ‘mndb mlk bn ‘mn
1.
The works of ‘Ammīnadab king of the Ammonites
