"Shema, servant of Jeroboam"
A royal official's seal from Megiddo names a king Jeroboam of Israel and shows the court apparatus around him.
ContestéObjet8th century BC
A jasper seal engraved with a roaring lion and the words "Belonging to Shema, servant of Jeroboam" — the title used for a royal official. It is generally taken to belong to the reign of Jeroboam II of Israel, whose long reign 2 Kings records.
Belonging to Shema, servant of Jeroboam.
- Découvert
- Megiddo, Israel, 1904 — Gottlieb Schumacher's excavation
- Conservé à
- Original lost; casts in the Israel Museum and elsewhere
- Langue
- Hebrew
- Comment il nous est parvenu
- Fouillé, ou encore debout là où il fut bâti.
Ce qu'elle montre
The original seal disappeared after being sent to Istanbul, so only casts survive; and which Jeroboam is meant rests on the style of the script rather than on the text.
Ce qu'en font les historiens
A standard exhibit in Hebrew seal studies, usually assigned to Jeroboam II on palaeographic grounds.
Dans l'Écriture
Se rattache à
Sources
- Avigad & Sass, Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals (1997)
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