Shema Seal | |
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![]() Postage stamp depicting the Shema Seal | |
Material | (Original)
Jasper (Bulla) Clay |
Writing | Paleo Hebrew |
Created | 8th century BCE |
Discovered | (Original) 1904,
Megiddo, Israel (Bulla) bought from a Bedouin market in 1980 |
Present location | (Original) unknown (Bulla) Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem |
The Shema Seal is an ancient Jasper seal that dates back to the 8th century BCE and mentions the King of ancient Israel, Jeroboam. [1] [2] [3]
Archaeologist Gottlieb Schumacher and his team began excavating at Megiddo and found the seal during a three-year excavation program. [4] The seal was discovered in 1904, in an excavation dump. The layers in which it was found were dated to the eighth century BCE. [5] [6] Schumacher send the original seal to Istanbul but it never returned. [7] Its current location is unknown. A bronze cast made before it was sent away. [8] [9]
In the 1980s Yigal Ronen, a nuclear engineer and amateur antiquities collector from the Ben Gurion university, visited the Bedouin market in Be'er Sheva. [10] He was offered a tiny clay lump stamped with the image of a roaring lion and ancient Hebrew writing. Ronen bought it for 10 Shekels, even though suspecting it to be a forgery. [11] [12]
It turned out to be authentical. [13] It is not the original Meggido seal, but features the same images and dates from the same period as the original. [14] [15] [16]
“Belonging to Shema (שמע) [17] the servant of Jeroboam.” [18] [19]
Hebrew to English translation:
‘Ishm’ ‘bdyrbm’ [1]
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Shema Seal | |
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![]() Postage stamp depicting the Shema Seal | |
Material | (Original)
Jasper (Bulla) Clay |
Writing | Paleo Hebrew |
Created | 8th century BCE |
Discovered | (Original) 1904,
Megiddo, Israel (Bulla) bought from a Bedouin market in 1980 |
Present location | (Original) unknown (Bulla) Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem |
The Shema Seal is an ancient Jasper seal that dates back to the 8th century BCE and mentions the King of ancient Israel, Jeroboam. [1] [2] [3]
Archaeologist Gottlieb Schumacher and his team began excavating at Megiddo and found the seal during a three-year excavation program. [4] The seal was discovered in 1904, in an excavation dump. The layers in which it was found were dated to the eighth century BCE. [5] [6] Schumacher send the original seal to Istanbul but it never returned. [7] Its current location is unknown. A bronze cast made before it was sent away. [8] [9]
In the 1980s Yigal Ronen, a nuclear engineer and amateur antiquities collector from the Ben Gurion university, visited the Bedouin market in Be'er Sheva. [10] He was offered a tiny clay lump stamped with the image of a roaring lion and ancient Hebrew writing. Ronen bought it for 10 Shekels, even though suspecting it to be a forgery. [11] [12]
It turned out to be authentical. [13] It is not the original Meggido seal, but features the same images and dates from the same period as the original. [14] [15] [16]
“Belonging to Shema (שמע) [17] the servant of Jeroboam.” [18] [19]
Hebrew to English translation:
‘Ishm’ ‘bdyrbm’ [1]
{{
cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)