[9] The calendar is inscribed on a limestone plaque and describes monthly or bi-monthly periods and attributes to each a duty such as harvest, planting, or tending specific crops.

The inscription, known as KAI 182, is in Phoenician or paleo-Hebrew script: Which in equivalent square Hebrew letters is as follows: This corresponds to the following transliteration, with spaces added for word divisions: The text has been translated as: Possible equivalent months:

The scribe of the calendar is probably "Abijah", whose name means "Yah (a shorter form of the Tetragrammaton) is my father".

If accurate, then it would be an early attestation of the name YHWH, predating the Mesha Stele by more than a century.

Macalister of the Palestine Exploration Fund while excavating the ancient Canaanite city of Gezer, 20 miles west of Jerusalem.