Seal of Shelomit, with Two Men Flanking an Altar

Iron Age IIB–IIC, Mid-8th–Mid-7th Century BCE

Stone seal with two bearded men with their hands raised flanking an altar or pedestal with crescents above and below their hands, and Hebrew inscription at bottom.
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