The lmlk storage jars
A kingdom-wide store of stamped royal jars, concentrated in the year Sennacherib invaded.
Подтверждено раскопкамиПредметlate 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.
- Найдено
- Across Judah — Lachish, Jerusalem, Ramat Rahel and dozens of sites — Many excavations since the nineteenth century
- Хранится
- Israel Antiquities Authority and museums worldwide
- Язык
- Hebrew
- Как это дошло до нас
- Раскопано или до сих пор стоит там, где было построено.
Что она показывает
The stamps name no king. The link to Hezekiah's preparations rests on their date and distribution, which is the mainstream reading.
Как это используют историки
One of the most studied artefact classes in Levantine archaeology, used to date late-eighth-century strata.
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Источники
- Vaughn, Theology, History, and Archaeology in the Chronicler's Account of Hezekiah (1999)
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