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Age of Empires: The History and Administration of Judah in the 8th-2nd Centuries Bce in Light of the Storage-Jar Stamp Impressions

Age of Empires: The History and Administration of Judah in the 8th-2nd Centuries Bce in Light of the Storage-Jar Stamp Impressions

Lipschits, Oded

Hardcover

Series: Mosaics, Book 2

ArchaeologyAncient History GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1646021606
ISBN13: 9781646021604
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: Jul 28 2021
Pages: 250
Weight: 2.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.80 Depth: 11.20
Language: English

Storage jars of many shapes and sizes were in widespread use in the ancient world, transporting and storing agricultural products such as wine and oil, crucial to agriculture, economy, trade and subsistence. From the late 8th to the 2nd century BCE, the oval storage jars typical of Judah were often stamped or otherwise marked: in the late 8th and early 7th century BCE with lmlk stamp impressions, later in the 7th century with concentric circle incisions or rosette stamp impressions, in the 6th century, after the fall of Jerusalem, with lion stamp impressions, and in the Persian, Ptolemaic and Seleucid periods (late 6th-late 2nd centuries BCE) with yhwd stamp impressions. At the same time, several ad hoc systems of stamp impressions appeared: private stamp impressions were used on the eve of Sennacherib's campaign, mwṣh stamp impressions after the destruction of Jerusalem, and yrslm impressions after the establishment of the Hasmonean state. While administrative systems that stamped storage jars are known elsewhere in the ancient Near East, the phenomenon in Judah is unparalleled in its scale, variety and continuity, spanning a period of some 600 years without interruption.

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