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‘Atiqot 72 (2012)
ISBN 2948-040X
“The Lord Will Roar from Zion” (Amos 1:2): The Lion as a Divine Attribute on a Jerusalem Seal and Other Hebrew Glyptic Finds from the Western Wall Plaza Excavations
(pp. 1*–13*)
Tallay Ornan, Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah, Shua Kisilevitz and Benjamin Sass
Keywords: Jerusalem, Iron Age, epigraphy, art, glyptics, iconography, deity, Yahweh
A stamp seal bearing the image of a roaring lion and a Hebrew legend was found during the excavations of the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem. It is the first seal with a lion motif to be published from Iron Age II Jerusalem, and one of only a few from Judah bearing a lion motif. Two other glyptic finds include a fragment of a scaraboid, inscribed in Hebrew, and a bulla, with a palmette and traces of a Hebrew inscription. These finds are an important addition to the growing corpus of both inscribed and uninscribed seals that have been unearthed in Jerusalem in recent years.