TY - JOUR
T1 - The yršlm Stamp Impressions on Jar Handles
T2 - Distribution, Chronology, Iconography and Function
AU - Bocher, Efrat
AU - Lipschits, Oded
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - The yršlm stamp impressions are the final link in a long chain of a Judahite- Yehudite-Judean administrative tradition of stamping handles or bodies of storage jars. With its cessation, the system that functioned for 600 years under Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Ptolemaic and Seleucid rule from the 8th century BCE through to the establishment of the Hasmonean kingdom, fell into obsolescence. This paper presents an updated corpus of the yršlm stamped jar handles. The authors discuss the following issues: distribution and chronology of the finds; their connection to the late yhwd stamp impressions; the reason why the administrative system in Judea began using iconographic symbols hundreds of years after employing only script on the stamped jar system; the meaning of the pentagram symbol utilized in these seals; and the function of the stamping system in the Hasmonean kingdom in the 2nd century BCE.
AB - The yršlm stamp impressions are the final link in a long chain of a Judahite- Yehudite-Judean administrative tradition of stamping handles or bodies of storage jars. With its cessation, the system that functioned for 600 years under Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Ptolemaic and Seleucid rule from the 8th century BCE through to the establishment of the Hasmonean kingdom, fell into obsolescence. This paper presents an updated corpus of the yršlm stamped jar handles. The authors discuss the following issues: distribution and chronology of the finds; their connection to the late yhwd stamp impressions; the reason why the administrative system in Judea began using iconographic symbols hundreds of years after employing only script on the stamped jar system; the meaning of the pentagram symbol utilized in these seals; and the function of the stamping system in the Hasmonean kingdom in the 2nd century BCE.
KW - Hasmonean period
KW - Jerusalem
KW - Judahite administration
KW - Lmlk
KW - Rosette and yhwd stamped jar handles
KW - Yršlm stamp impressions
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U2 - 10.1179/033443513X13612671397468
DO - 10.1179/033443513X13612671397468
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AN - SCOPUS:84878515249
SN - 0334-4355
VL - 40
SP - 99
EP - 116
JO - Tel Aviv
JF - Tel Aviv
IS - 1
ER -