You are welcome to use these photos in your teaching.

Thanks!

Would God defile His own Holy of holies on the day of Atonement? Of course not therefore no need to make provisions…. God KNOWS and is well prepared.

Dear Dr. Bolen, You are most welcome! I finally found last night a publication of some of the jar handles found at Arnona. It is from Atiqot 110 March, 2023, published by the Israel Antiquities Authority. The article is titled “A New Assemblage of ‘Private’ Stamped Jar Handles from the Mordot Arnona Excavations”, Jerusalem (pp. 1–22) by
Neria Sapir, Nathan Ben-Ari, Ido Koch and Oded Lipschits. In the article, the authors concentrate on the eleven personal seals’ handles found on LMLK jars at Arnona, which they call “private” instead of personal. Again, they emphasize the pre-701 B.C. date of the jar handles and provide nice colored photographs of each “private” handle. Amazingly only the seal of Nahum (son of) Abdi comes from an absolute pre-701 B.C. sealed archaeological context. Eight others come from an Iron Age context of 650 B.C. and before which the authors say were found in fills from a 701 B.C. context. However, there are two personal seal handles that were found in much later strata. One is from the Hellenistic period and one is from the Hasmonean period. These two handles can only have come from LMLK jars that had survived the invasion of Sennacherib and were reused after 701 B.C. because they were already made and readily available. Thank you as always for everything that you do! Sincerely yours, Michael

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