Gezer calendar Totally Explained

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The Gezer calendar is a tablet of soft limestone inscribed in a paleo-Hebrew script. It is one of the oldest known examples of Hebrew writing, dating to the 10th century BCE. It was discovered in excavations of the Biblical city of Gezer, 30 miles northwest of Jerusalem, by R.A.S. Macalister in his excavations between 1902 and 1907. The calendar describes monthly or bi-monthly periods and attributes to each a duty such as harvest, planting or tending specific crops.
   It reads:
"Two months of harvest
   Two months of planting
   Two months are late planting
   One month of hoeing
   One month of barley-harvest
   One month of harvest and festival
   Two months of grape harvesting
   One month of summer fruit"
   Scholars have speculated that the calendar is either a schoolboy's memory exercise or perhaps the text of a popular folk song, or child's song. Another possibility is something designed for the collection of taxes from farmers.
   The Gezer Calendar is in the Museum of the Ancient Orient in Istanbul, along with the Siloam inscription and other archaeological discoveries found before World War I. ==

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