The archaeological-epigraphical discovery presented in this book represents an important contribution to the study of Ancient Israel, its history and culture. The objects form a group of 255 Hebrew seal-impressions on clay bullae from the final days of the Kingdom of Judah - the largest such assemblage ever found. The bullae, small blobs of clay originally attached to strings tied around rolled papyri, served to seal documents deposited in a now-lost public archive. themselves The bullae were impressed with seals bearing the names of their owners in the ancient Hebrew script. When the archive was burned, the documents themselves perished, but the clay bullae were baked hard, and thus survived.
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