I’m very excited to read on PaleoJudaica that the Siloam Inscription is likely to be returned to Israel for at least a limited period. There is a translation and images of the text at the English Wikipedia article, a transcription in both Ancient and Modern Hebrew characters from the Jewish Encyclopedia and a transcription and translation into Modern Hebrew at the Hebrew Wikipedia article, but as far as I know the original text is not available anywhere online in text format. Here it is:
𐤄𐤍𐤒𐤁𐤄𐤟𐤅𐤆𐤄𐤟𐤄𐤉𐤄𐤟𐤃𐤁𐤓𐤟𐤄𐤍𐤒𐤁𐤄𐤟𐤁𐤏𐤅𐤃 𐤄𐤂𐤓𐤆𐤍𐤟𐤀𐤔𐤟𐤀𐤋𐤟𐤓𐤏𐤅𐤟𐤅𐤁𐤏𐤅𐤃𐤟𐤔𐤋𐤔𐤟𐤀𐤌𐤕𐤟𐤋𐤄𐤍 𐤏𐤟𐤒𐤋𐤟𐤀𐤔𐤟𐤒 𐤀𐤟𐤀𐤋𐤟𐤓𐤏𐤅𐤟𐤊𐤉𐤟𐤄𐤉𐤕𐤟𐤆𐤃𐤄𐤟𐤁𐤑𐤓𐤟𐤌𐤉𐤌𐤍 𐤅𐤋𐤟𐤅𐤁𐤉𐤌𐤟𐤄 𐤍𐤒𐤁𐤄𐤟𐤄𐤊𐤅𐤟𐤄𐤇𐤑𐤁𐤌𐤟𐤀𐤔𐤟𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤓𐤏𐤅𐤟𐤂𐤓𐤆𐤍𐤟𐤏𐤋 𐤓𐤂𐤍𐤟𐤅𐤉𐤋𐤊𐤅 𐤄𐤌𐤉𐤌𐤟𐤌𐤍𐤟𐤄𐤌𐤅𐤑𐤀𐤟𐤀𐤋𐤟𐤄𐤁𐤓𐤊𐤄𐤟𐤁𐤌𐤀𐤕𐤉 𐤋𐤐𐤟𐤀𐤌𐤄𐤟𐤅𐤌 𐤕𐤟𐤀𐤌𐤄𐤟𐤄𐤉𐤄𐤟𐤂𐤁𐤄𐤟𐤄𐤑𐤓𐤟𐤏𐤋𐤟𐤓𐤀𐤔𐤟𐤄𐤇𐤑𐤁
You will need a font that supports “Phoenician” and a browser that supports Unicode 5.0 to see the text correctly
Amir Aharoni | 09-Sep-07 at 4:08 am | Permalink
Neat!
I am waiting for the day when all computers will come with this font installed.
Steg (dos iz nit...) | 25-Sep-08 at 3:21 pm | Permalink
That’s really cool… but the Ktav Ivri is coming out in reverse-order on my screen.
Simon | 25-Sep-08 at 6:37 pm | Permalink
Steg, what browser are you using? As far as I know Firefox (and other Gecko-based browsers) are the only ones that display Ktav Ivri correctly.