"Shema, servant of Jeroboam"
A royal official's seal from Megiddo names a king Jeroboam of Israel and shows the court apparatus around him.
ContestadoObjeto8th 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.
- Encontrado
- Megiddo, Israel, 1904 — Gottlieb Schumacher's excavation
- Conservado em
- Original lost; casts in the Israel Museum and elsewhere
- Língua
- Hebrew
- Como chegou até nós
- Escavado, ou ainda de pé onde foi construído.
O que mostra
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.
Como os historiadores o usam
A standard exhibit in Hebrew seal studies, usually assigned to Jeroboam II on palaeographic grounds.
Na Escritura
Ligado a
Fontes
- Avigad & Sass, Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals (1997)
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