Wikipedia's first sentence called it “redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject”. Today it says “a 15-by-16”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-03.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the October 6, 2023 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in October 6, 2023
Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in) ostracon (a trapezoid -shaped potsherd ) with five lines of text, discovered in Building II, Room B, in Area B of the excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa in 2008. Hebrew University archaeologist Amihai Mazar said the inscription was the longest Proto-Canaanite text ever found. Carbon-14 dating of 4 olive pips found in the same context with the ostracon and pottery analysis offer a date of Iron Age IIA c. 3,000 years ago (late 11th/early 10th century BCE). In 2010, the ostracon was placed on display in the Iron Age gallery of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. In Garfinkel, Yosef; Ganor, Saar (eds.). Earliest known Hebrew text unearthed at 3,000 year old Judean fortress , Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct 2008.
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1173484346.
The opening as it stood in 2020
Redirect to: Khirbet Qeiyafa#Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon To a section : This is a redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 928622602.
The opening as it stood in 2025
Artist's rendition of the ostracon The Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in) ostracon (a trapezoid -shaped potsherd ) with five lines of text, discovered in Building II, Room B, in Area B of the excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa in 2008. Hebrew University archaeologist Amihai Mazar said the inscription was the longest Proto-Canaanite text ever found. Carbon-14 dating of 4 olive pips found in the same context with the ostracon and pottery analysis offer a date of Iron Age IIA c. 3,000 years ago (late 11th/early 10th century BCE). In 2010, the ostracon was placed on display in the Iron Age gallery of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem . In Garfinkel, Yosef; Ganor, Saar (eds.). Earliest known Hebrew text unearthed at 3,000 year old Judean fortress , Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct 2008.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1264162639. This is our newest snapshot; the live article may have moved again since.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject”. Today it says “a 15-by-16”. Read the current article and compare.
2020
Oct '23
2025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2020, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject
Now
a 15-by-16
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.
