[{"id":"A-SOLEB","name":"Soleb Shasu-land list","type":"monumental Egyptian toponym list","place":"Soleb, Sudan","start_year":-1390,"end_year":-1352,"date_note":"Amenhotep III reign range: not necessarily date of underlying name","language":"Egyptian","script":"Egyptian hieroglyphic","evidence_status":"uncertain_identification","note":"Designation Yhwʒ occurs in a Shasu list. Not a secure inscription of YHWH as a deity."},{"id":"A-AMARAH","name":"Amarah West Shasu-land list","type":"monumental Egyptian toponym list","place":"Amarah West, Sudan","start_year":-1279,"end_year":-1213,"date_note":"Ramesses II reign; list tradition may be older","language":"Egyptian","script":"Egyptian hieroglyphic","evidence_status":"uncertain_identification","note":"Related Shasu-Yhw designation; no direct secure god-name equivalence."},{"id":"A-MESHA","name":"Mesha Stele, AO 5066","type":"royal victory stele","place":"Dhiban/Dibon, Moab","start_year":-850,"end_year":-805,"date_note":"Louvre catalogue 830–805; wider 9th-century range","language":"Moabite","script":"Paleo-Hebrew / Phoenician-derived","evidence_status":"secure_consonantal","note":"YHWH in line 18; vowels unmarked."},{"id":"A-KA","name":"Kuntillet ʿAjrud inscriptions","type":"pottery/plaster/stone inscriptions","place":"Kuntillet ʿAjrud, Sinai","start_year":-820,"end_year":-740,"date_note":"Broad late 9th–8th century BCE archeological dating","language":"Hebrew / regional Northwest Semitic","script":"Paleo-Hebrew","evidence_status":"secure_with_variant_readings","note":"Both four-letter and shorter divine-name forms in inscriptions; readings vary by item."},{"id":"A-KETEF","name":"Ketef Hinnom silver amulets","type":"silver-foil inscriptions","place":"Jerusalem","start_year":-650,"end_year":-580,"date_note":"Late 7th / early 6th century BCE approximate","language":"Hebrew","script":"Paleo-Hebrew","evidence_status":"secure_general","note":"Divine name in blessing texts; detailed letter-level readings require editions."},{"id":"A-LACHISH2","name":"Lachish Letter 2","type":"ostracon letter","place":"Tel Lachish, Judah","start_year":-590,"end_year":-585,"date_note":"Approx. 589/588 BCE in Davies corpus","language":"Hebrew","script":"Paleo-Hebrew","evidence_status":"secure_consonantal","note":"YHWH appears as formula in line 2."},{"id":"A-LACHISH3","name":"Lachish Letter 3","type":"ostracon letter","place":"Tel Lachish, Judah","start_year":-590,"end_year":-585,"date_note":"Approx. 589/588 BCE in Davies corpus","language":"Hebrew","script":"Paleo-Hebrew","evidence_status":"secure_consonantal","note":"YHWH appears in greeting; names ending -yhw."},{"id":"A-ARAD18","name":"Arad Ostracon 18","type":"ostracon letter","place":"Tel Arad, Judah","start_year":-600,"end_year":-580,"date_note":"Approx. late Iron Age Judah; individual date approximate","language":"Hebrew","script":"Paleo-Hebrew","evidence_status":"secondary_reported","note":"Lemaire surveys invocation with YHWH."},{"id":"A-ELE-D49","name":"Elephantine documentary papyrus, TAD D.4.9","type":"papyrus fragment","place":"Elephantine, Egypt","start_year":-500,"end_year":-400,"date_note":"5th century BCE approximate corpus assignment","language":"Imperial Aramaic","script":"Aramaic","evidence_status":"secure_catalog_transcription","note":"Pap. Berlin P.13461A–P.13448–15; YHW spelled in explicit line."},{"id":"A-ELE-A47","name":"Elephantine temple petition, TAD A.4.7","type":"papyrus","place":"Elephantine, Egypt","start_year":-420,"end_year":-400,"date_note":"Later 5th century BCE; catalog dating to refine","language":"Imperial Aramaic","script":"Aramaic","evidence_status":"secure_catalog_summary","note":"Petition concerning temple of Yaho at Elephantine."},{"id":"A-ELE-C315","name":"Elephantine temple assessment, TAD C.3.15","type":"papyrus","place":"Elephantine, Egypt","start_year":-500,"end_year":-400,"date_note":"5th century BCE approximate corpus assignment","language":"Imperial Aramaic","script":"Aramaic","evidence_status":"secure_catalog_summary","note":"Tax collection for temple of Yaho."},{"id":"A-4Q120","name":"4Q120 / 4QLXXLevb","type":"Greek scriptural papyrus","place":"Qumran","start_year":-100,"end_year":-1,"date_note":"First century BCE paleographic date","language":"Koine Greek","script":"Greek","evidence_status":"secure_edition_reported","note":"ΙΑΩ at Leviticus 4:27 among witnesses; verse/locus differences in sources need collation."},{"id":"A-CLEMENT","name":"Clement of Alexandria, Stromata V.6","type":"patristic literary text","place":"Alexandria / later copied manuscripts","start_year":190,"end_year":220,"date_note":"Composition ~late 2nd/early 3rd century; manuscripts substantially later","language":"Greek","script":"Greek","evidence_status":"manuscript_disputed","note":"Iaou vs Iaoue in surviving manuscript and editorial transmission; do not conflate author with extant manuscript."},{"id":"A-THEODORET","name":"Theodoret, Questions on Exodus 15","type":"patristic literary text","place":"Cyrrhus / Byzantine world","start_year":430,"end_year":460,"date_note":"Fifth-century CE author testimony","language":"Greek","script":"Greek","evidence_status":"reported_tradition","note":"Reports Iabe for Samaritan and Aia for Jewish usage; not contemporary to Iron Age."},{"id":"A-EXODUS3","name":"Exodus 3:14–15 (received Hebrew text)","type":"biblical text","place":"Textual tradition; historical composition debated","start_year":null,"end_year":null,"date_note":"Dating of composition not encoded","language":"Hebrew","script":"Masoretic Hebrew","evidence_status":"literary_transmission","note":"Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh theological wordplay and YHWH."},{"id":"A-PSALM68","name":"Psalm 68:5 (received Hebrew text)","type":"biblical text","place":"Textual tradition; historical composition debated","start_year":null,"end_year":null,"date_note":"Dating of composition not encoded","language":"Hebrew","script":"Masoretic Hebrew","evidence_status":"literary_transmission","note":"Explicit short independent name Yah."}]