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	LMLK seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This suggests that 12 of the 21 seals were made prior to the attack, and the remaining 9 afterwards.
		Several hundred seal impressions made on the same type of jar handle have been found in the same contexts as the LMLK stamps.
		The Z2U seal design was chosen for the first postage stamp of Israel to name the renascent state, released on September 26, 1948 in time for Rosh Hashanah 5709 (the Jewish New Year of October 4, 1948).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/LMLK_seal (1308 words)

	Seal - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Seal (mechanical), a device to contain pressure, or exclude contamination from an enclosure.
		Seal (device), a device used to produce an official stamp as a symbol of authority, or the impression left by a seal in sealing wax.
		LMLK seal, stamped on handles of large storage jars around Jerusalem about 700 BC Nintendo Seal of Quality is a gold seal used by Nintendo to show that a game is properly licensed to run on their game consoles
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Seal (893 words)

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		They were found in the settled areas of the city, as well as in burial tombs Though many of the seals were bought on the market and are therefore of unknown provenance.
		Some of names that appear on the seals are historical personages mentioned in the Bible.
		Also, there were dozens of LMLK stamps, probably of royal origin.
	www.archpark.org.il /article.asp?period_id=3&id=411 (87 words)

	Amazon.com: LMLK: A Mystery Belonging to the King, Vol. 1: Books: G.M. Grena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wonderful things within to whet your appetite: On LMLK seals, all HBRN inscriptions were scriptio defectiva; all SUKE inscriptions were plene; and of the 6 LMLK seals with Z (Y) F, half were plene and half defectiva.
		Horses (as probably dedicated to the sun) are also shown on some lmlk jar handles as well as on the unprovenanced seal of a Ashyahu servant of the king (a known minister of king Josiah and perhaps already of Manasseh).
		Grena's drawings of the 21 known LMLK seals are the best, most accurate representations surpassing even Dr. Andre Lemaire's(of the James Ossuary Controversy) chart from the early 1980's.
	www.amazon.com /LMLK-Mystery-Belonging-King-Vol/dp/097487860X (2424 words)

	LMLK seals - CreationWiki
		LMLK seal impressions are found in and around Jerusalem on fragmented jar handles interpreted as royal stamps that may be referring to a Biblical king of Judah.
		The 3-letter noun "MLK" is a segolate, meaning that it is pronounced with two "e" vowels (or segols as in "MeLeK") and is accented on the first syllable contrary to normal Hebrew accentuation.
		But the definiteness of the noun is not indicated in the consonantal text of these seals.
	creationwiki.org /LMLK_seals (228 words)

	Universität Münster > Centrum für Geschichte & Kultur des östlichen Mittelmeerraums/Termine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A number of unique types of objects were produced in the kingdom of Judah.These include the Judean "pillar-figurines" and a varied number of royal seals, such as the lmlk seals of the eight century BCE and the rosette seals dating from the end of the seventh and beginning of the sixth century BCE.
		Since all of these seal impressions were discovered within the borders of the province, they allow us to establish the borders of the Judean province in the Persian period.
		An exception to the above seal impressions are two examples discovered at a great distance from Judah, one at Kadesh Barnea in Sinai and the other in the city of Babylon.
	www.uni-muenster.de /CentrumGKM/termine/juda/vortrag_stern.html (231 words)

	Two personal Hebrew seals (#m14) < Monographs < Archaeological Center - Licensed to sell ancient history > ...
		The seal is set in a silver pendant and fixed with a wire passing through the perforation without a bezel.
		They are especially known from the so called lmlk seal impressions on storage jar handles positively dated to the late 8th century BCE, in the time of Hezekiah the King of Judah (Ussishkin 1977).
		This may indicate that the seal, undoubtedly set in a ring, received a knock and the flat part was lost by its owner while the upper part remained in the ring.
	www.archaeological-center.com /en/monographs/m14 (1137 words)

	Houses of Ancient Israel - Exhibit Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The seals were inscribed lmlk, meaning "belonging to the king." They show a four-winged beetle or a two-winged sun disk and bear the name of one of four cities, Hebron, Ziph, Socoh or the unidentified mmst [hatch mark over s].
		The prophet Malachi described Yahweh as the sun of righteousness with healing in his wings, and the use of solar imagery to represent Yahweh was at least as old as the tenth century.
		Hezekiah's royal seals and seals of individuals from the late eighth century B.C.E. also show symbols of the sun, like the four-winged beetle on the red carnelian seal of Hananyahu.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/HOAI/adultmain.cgi?article=admin.htm (346 words)

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		STAMP SEALS OF IRON I-II: Stamp seals first appear at the end of the Late Bronze Age and continue to be produce in Iron I. Some of these seals are designated scaraboids, thus, indicating perhaps their derivation from Egyptian scarabs.
		Seals and other inscriptional material, including dockets from Samaria or inscribed jar handles from Gibeon, are valuable particularly in discussion of the religiosity of the northern and southern kingdoms.
		The seals are of three types: winged sun-disk, a four-winged scarab (naturalistic style) and a four-winged scarab (schematic style).
	www.bu.edu /anep/Ir.html (9191 words)

	Seal
		Seal or SEAL may refer to articles connected to a variety of meanings of the word:
		LMLK seal, stamped on handles of large storage jars around Jerusalem about 700 BC
		Nintendo Seal of Quality is a gold seal used by Nintendo to show that a game is properly licensed to run on their game consoles
	www.kiwipedia.com /seal.html (857 words)

	Hezekiah - Chaldeans Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Two distinct classes of seal impressions have been found in modern Israel relating to King Hezekiah:
		LMLK seals on storage jar handles, excavated from strata formed by Sennacherib's destruction as well as immediately above that layer suggesting they were used throughout his 29-year reign (Grena, 2004, p.
		Bullae from sealed documents, some that may have belonged to Hezekiah himself (Grena, 2004, p.
	www.chaldeans.org /wiki/index.php/Hezekiah (1801 words)

	LMLK--Personal Seals
		Scholars have referred to these seals as belonging to both private individuals (such as potters) & officials (such as government bureaucrats) but they could have also belonged to priests &/or Levites.
		Almost all the personal seals found on LMLK jars are designed similar to the one seen in the photo above; namely, they contain 2 lines of text separated by 1 or 2 horizontal lines in an oval (typically 13 x 11mm).
		In the English transliterations, a period (".") represents word divider dots on the seals; a pipe ("") is used for word divider bars; an underscore ("_") indicates a field divider or new line/register; "n/a" means it is not applicable since it was not published.
	www.lmlk.com /research/lmlk_pers.htm (1016 words)

	Archaeologics.com -- Can You Dig It? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1923 he made the first significant excavation of a tumulus near Jerusalem--possibly the site where an ancient king of Judah was memorialized.
		Another noteworthy contribution he made to the field of Biblical archaeology was his study of the LMLK seals and the impact it had on other researchers from 1925-1960 (Grena, 2004, pp.
		He edited the Anchor Bible volumes on Jeremiah, Matthew, and Revelation; his books include Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan, The Archaeology of Palestine: From the Stone Age to Christianity, and The Biblical Period from Abraham to Ezra.
	www.archaeologics.com /famousAlbright.html (208 words)

	Stamp seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Stamp seal and the Cylinder seal are stone type seals, first made in the Fourth Millennium and probably earlier.
		At the moment, the only references are the Tell Halaf stamps from the Halafian Culture in northern Syria on the Turkish border, and the much later LMLK stamps found primarily in Lachish.
		Numerous examples of the Cylinder seal; (3) separate Discussions (only) of "Stamp sealing".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stamp_seal (168 words)

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	hebron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hebron became one of the principle centers of the Tribe of Judah, and the Judahite David was anointed King of Israel in Hebron and reigned in the city until the capture of Jerusalem, when the capital of the Kingdom of Israel was moved to that city.
		Jar handle stamps bearing Hebrew letters dating from 700 BCE, the oldest known inscription naming the city, have been found in Hebron (see LMLK seal).
		After the destruction of the First Temple, most of the Jewish inhabitants of Hebron were exiled and their place was taken by Edomites at about 587 BCE.
	www.mediaconcert.com /wiki/?title=Hebron (2271 words)

	The LMLK Research Website
		LMLK seal impressions that cannot be classified by inscriptions
		LMLK impression made with an extra lump of clay added to the handle
		Note: The LMLK Research Website is not copyrighted--its publication is open for the benefit of all interested researchers.
	www.lmlk.com /research (387 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LMLK sites as of March, 2006 Though most of these stamped jar handles have been found in the southern kingdom (68 sites in the ancient territory assigned to the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Simeon), some have also been found in the northern kingdom (4 sites in the northwest region).
		Hezekiah (whose name means "whom God has strengthened") was king of Judah, the son of Ahaz (2 Kings 18:1; 2 Chronicles 29:1).
		The latter symbol was popularized in Egypt and was associated with resurrection/rebirth as well as royal authority.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=LMLK_seal (1190 words)

	Tithe - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They received from "all Israel" a tithe of food or livestock for support, but would first set aside a portion of that tithe for the Aaronic priests.
		LMLK seals may represent the oldest archaeological evidence of tithing.
		About 10 percent of the storage jars manufactured during Hezekiah's reign (circa 700 BC) were stamped (Grena, 2004, pp.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Tithe (3613 words)

	Biblical archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Charles Warren conducted the first formal excavations in the Holy Land under the auspices of the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1867, a time when the oldest complete Hebrew scripture only dated to the Middle Ages.
		Warren discovered the first Israelite inscriptions on several jar handles with LMLK seals found near the southeast wall of the Temple in Jerusalem.
		The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered shortly before Israel gained statehood in 1948, and other ancient copies of the Bible manuscripts do not qualify as artifacts representing something mentioned in the Bible, although they are an important testimony to the antiquity of the texts, and the reliable manner in which they were preserved through the centuries.
	biblical-archaeology.mindbit.com (1748 words)

	Informat.io on Levite
		The Book of Ezra reports that the Levites were responsible for the construction of the Second Temple and also translated and explained the Torah when it was publicly read.
		Levites and priests may have been responsible for stamping the LMLK seals on Judean storage jars during the reign of Hezekiah (ca.
		Today, Levites in Orthodox Judaism continue to have additional rights and obligations compared to lay people, although these responsibilities have diminished with the destruction of the Temple.
	www.informat.io /?title=levite (834 words)

	Amazon.com: Profile For G. M. Grena: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		So the purpose of the LMLK jars appears to support the 2 Chronicles narrative of Hezekiah's worship reformation, a source mostly ignored at this seminar.
		Vaughn uses the handles with LMLK stamps and especially handles with Personal stamps as evidence of a long-term economic buildup under the reign of Hezekiah, which challenges the dominant belief during the Ussishkin era that these artifacts indicate an emergency buildup of military supplies.
		By viewing all the LMLK seals as a single group, he makes questionable assumptions when dating strata that contradict his opinion of Hezekiah's reign and what happened after Sennacherib left.
	amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3TLI8EYC13L37 (4927 words)

	35 < Auctions < Archaeological Center - Licensed to sell ancient history > http://www.archaeological-center.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Impressed with the royal seal "lmlk mmst" and bearing the royal emblem of King Hezekiah,…
		Impressed with the royal seal "lmlk zp" and bearing the royal emblem of King Hezekiah,…
		Impressed with the royal seal: "lmlk swkh", and bearing the royal emblem of king Hezekiah,…
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		Other possibilities are suggested by the "transformation spells" of the Coffin Texts, which affirm that the soul of the deceased may transform (xpr) into a human being, a god, or a bird and reappear in the world of the living.
		In contrast to funerary contexts, some of ancient Egypt's neighbors adopted the scarab motif for seals.
		The best-known of these being Judean LMLK seals (8 of 21 designs contained scarab beetles), which were used exclusively to stamp impressions on storage jars during the reign of Hezekiah.
	www.time-line.co.uk /x8051.html (1977 words)

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		However, Barkay has the largest corpus of LMLK, which - he=20 says - is close to 2,000 by now.=20 Cahill described 28 types of Rosette stamps, but there is a possibility=20 that there were more than one seal of each type (Ofer is suspicious about= =20 it).
		However, the=20 LMLK cannot be separated from the "officials" ("private") seals, from=20 which more than 40 types/seals are known.
		Ofer thinks that LMLK and Rosette had the same use, and the difference=20 in quantity is explained by the great decline from Hezekiah time to the=FB= =20 of late Iron 2.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/V01/v01.n066 (4101 words)

	Ask Us A Question - Biblical archaeology involves the recovery and scientific investigation of the material remains of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The highlight of this period was Warren's work around the Temple Mount of Jerusalem, where he discovered the foundation stones of Herod's Temple, the first Israelite inscriptions on several jar handles with LMLK seals, and water shafts under the City of David.
		A stone seal with gold rim, attributed to King Manasseh of Judah.
		A quartz bowl bearing an inscription in ancient Egyptian, indicating that the Minister of the Army of King Shishek conquered the ancient city of Meggido.
	www.inwoodnyus.com /info/Biblical_archaeology (4109 words)

	A Storage Jar Handle (#36-238) < Auctions < Robert Deutsch - Archaeology and Epigraphy > http://www.robert-deutsch.com
		A Lot of 6 Iron Age Seals of Different Types
		With the seal impression of: "Samak, (son of) Zaka" Bird at end of legend.
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	Tithe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is a unique passage, because it provides the only extra-Biblical evidence for the historical existence of one of the Patriarchs.
		See LMLK seals, which may have been stamped on 10 percent of storage jars produced during Hezekiah's reign (circa 700 BC) to ensure tithing compliance (Grena, 2004, pp.
		The first tenth part of all increase I gave to the sons of Aaron, who ministered at Jerusalem: another tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it every year at Jerusalem: And the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Debora my father's mother had commanded me...
	tithe.area51.ipupdater.com (3278 words)

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