Seal from Megiddo

First Half of 8th Century BCE

Belonging to Shema servant of Jeroboam.

Translated by
Nahman
Avigad
and
Benjamin
Sass
.

Notes

[Shema was possibly a servant (minister) of King Jeroboam II (reigned 788–747 BCE). For a photo of this seal, see “Seal of Shema, Servant of Jeroboam, with Lion.” It is also featured on the cover of the printed version.—Eds.]

Credits

Seal from Megiddo, in Nahman Avigad, revised and completed by Benjamin Sass, Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, The Israel Exploration Society, The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997), no. 2, p. 49. Used with permission of the publisher.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.

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