ARCHAEOLOGY: King's Maidservant

Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

Psalm 147:12

"Israeli investigators have seized a rare scroll mentioning the city

of Jerusalem from the time of the First Temple in the seventh century BC.
The mention of Jerusalem is the first ever found outside the Bible.
It is significant because it shows a woman, a maidservant of the King, to be wielding considerable authority. 
They found it to be from the "King's maidservant" and to include the earliest reference to Jerusalem in a non-biblical document.

The ancient Hebrew reads:

 [מא]מת. המלך. מנערתה. נבלים. יין. ירשלמה,

which translates as:

"From the King's maidservant, from Naʽarat,

jars of wine, to Jerusalem."

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