The lmlk storage jars
A kingdom-wide store of stamped royal jars, concentrated in the year Sennacherib invaded.
Confirmado pelo terrenoObjetolate 8th century BC
More than two thousand jar handles stamped lmlk — "belonging to the king" — with a winged sun or scarab and one of four city names. They cluster in the destruction layers of 701 BC and read as a state provisioning programme, of the kind Chronicles describes Hezekiah organising before the Assyrians came.
lmlk — "belonging to the king" — with Hebron, Ziph, Socoh or mmšt beneath.
- Encontrado
- Across Judah — Lachish, Jerusalem, Ramat Rahel and dozens of sites — Many excavations since the nineteenth century
- Conservado em
- Israel Antiquities Authority and museums worldwide
- Língua
- Hebrew
- Como chegou até nós
- Escavado, ou ainda de pé onde foi construído.
O que mostra
The stamps name no king. The link to Hezekiah's preparations rests on their date and distribution, which is the mainstream reading.
Como os historiadores o usam
One of the most studied artefact classes in Levantine archaeology, used to date late-eighth-century strata.
Na Escritura
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Fontes
- Vaughn, Theology, History, and Archaeology in the Chronicler's Account of Hezekiah (1999)
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