New Evidence Bearing on the Two-Winged LMLK Stamp
The consensus that "royal" seals were used on the LMLK jar handle stamps before the invasion of Judaea by Sennacherib in 701 B. C. E. is based on evidence that the four-winged scarab beetle was the royal symbol of the Northern Kingdom and on the inference that the two-winged solar disk was...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
1992
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 1992, Volume: 287, Pages: 61-65 |
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| Summary: | The consensus that "royal" seals were used on the LMLK jar handle stamps before the invasion of Judaea by Sennacherib in 701 B. C. E. is based on evidence that the four-winged scarab beetle was the royal symbol of the Northern Kingdom and on the inference that the two-winged solar disk was the royal symbol of the Southern Kingdom. New evidence from the Kenyon excavations on the southeast hill of Jerusalem supports that inference and shows that the two-winged symbol was in use at least from the time of Hezekiah (and probably earlier), continued into the seventh century B. C. E., and ceased in the last decades of the Monarchy, when another symbol (the rosette) came into use. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1357139 |