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‘Atiqot 80 (2015)
ISBN 2948-040X
An Israelite Basketry-Box Sealing from the Western Wall Plaza Excavations, Jerusalem
(pp. 1–12)
Baruch Brandl
Keywords: iconography, art, lotus flower, sealing technology, Queen Atalya, Northern Kingdom of Israel, metal bezel
A clay sealing was retrieved from the Iron Age II building uncovered in the Western Wall Plaza excavations. It was identified as Israelite, based on typological and stylistic grounds, as well as on the geo-political distribution of such seals. The basketry-box sealing seems to have reached Judah either during the ninth century BCE, or in the hands of a refugee during the last decades of the eighth century BCE, between 850 and 722 BCE.