"Shema, servant of Jeroboam"
A royal official's seal from Megiddo names a king Jeroboam of Israel and shows the court apparatus around him.
Fakakikihi'iMe'a8th 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.
- Na'e 'ilo'i
- Megiddo, Israel, 1904 — Gottlieb Schumacher's excavation
- 'Oku tauhi 'i
- Original lost; casts in the Israel Museum and elsewhere
- Lea
- Hebrew
- Na'e a'u mai fēfē kiate kitautolu
- Na'e keli hake, pe 'oku kei tu'u 'i he potu na'e langa ai.
Ko e me'a 'oku ne fakahā
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.
Founga hono ngāue'aki 'e he kau hisitōlia
A standard exhibit in Hebrew seal studies, usually assigned to Jeroboam II on palaeographic grounds.
'I he Folofola
Fekau'aki mo
Ngaahi ma'u'anga fakamatala
- Avigad & Sass, Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals (1997)
'Oku 'i he lea faka-Pilitānia 'a e ngaahi fakamatala ko 'eni he taimi ni. 'E muimui mai 'a e liliu.