{"id":32244,"date":"2019-04-05T03:53:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T10:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=32244"},"modified":"2019-04-02T22:56:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T05:56:03","slug":"first-temple-stamps-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2019\/04\/05\/first-temple-stamps-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"First Temple stamps discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The stamp of \u201cIkar, son of Matanyahu.\u201d <em>(IAA photos courtesy Ashernet)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/apr-05-toc.05.INSET-298R5-Jerusalem.Ir-David.Stamp-of-Ikar-son-of-Matanyahu-Biblical-seal_iaa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-32246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/apr-05-toc.05.INSET-298R5-Jerusalem.Ir-David.Stamp-of-Ikar-son-of-Matanyahu-Biblical-seal_iaa.jpg\" alt=\"photo - The 2,600-year-old stamp of \u201cIkar, son of Matanyahu\u201d was among the artifacts uncovered \" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>The 2,600-year-old stamp of \u201cIkar, son of Matanyahu\u201d was among the artifacts uncovered in archeological excavations at the Givati Parking Lot, in City of David National Park in Jerusalem. The dig was conducted by archeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and Tel Aviv University and, according to TAU\u2019s Prof. Yuval Gadot and IAA\u2019s Dr. Yiftah Shalev, the artifacts were found inside a large public building that was destroyed in the sixth century BCE, probably during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. Large stone debris, burnt wooden beams and numerous charred pottery shards were discovered, all indications that they had survived a fire.<\/p>\n<p>The stamp and bulla (seal impressions), which are about one centimetre in size, were deciphered by Dr. Anat Mendel-Geberovich of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Jerusalem. \u201cThe name Matanyahu appears both in the Bible and on additional stamps and bullae already unearthed. However, this is the first reference to the name Ikar, which was unknown until today,\u201d said Mendel-Geberovich.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gadot and Shalev, \u201cThese artifacts corroborate the highly developed system of administration in the Kingdom of Judah and add considerable information to our understanding of the economic status of Jerusalem and its administrative system during the First Temple period, as well as personal information about the king\u2019s closest officials and administrators who lived and worked in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stamp of \u201cIkar, son of Matanyahu.\u201d (IAA photos courtesy Ashernet) The 2,600-year-old stamp of \u201cIkar, son of Matanyahu\u201d was among the artifacts uncovered in archeological excavations at the Givati Parking Lot, in City of David National Park in Jerusalem. The dig was conducted by archeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and Tel Aviv [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4329],"tags":[224,1834,4242,3869,223,216,3074],"class_list":["post-32244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-archeology","tag-hebrew-university","tag-history","tag-iaa","tag-israel-antiquities-authority","tag-jerusalem","tag-tel-aviv-university"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}