Commander of the Fortress?
Understanding an Ancient Israelite Military Title
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Footnotes
1. Several good examples of seals with writing and images were recently published in Eilat Mazar’s article “Is This the Prophet Isaiah’s Signature?” BAR, 44:02.
2. ?See Eilat Mazar, “Did I Find King David’s Palace?” BAR, 32:01.
Endnotes
1.
Ronny Reich, Eli Shukron, and Omri Lernau, “Recent Discoveries in the City of David, Jerusalem,” Israel Exploration Journal 57 (2007), pp. 156–157.
2.
Blum’s reconstruction was published in Shmuel Ahituv and Ester Eshel, eds., To YHWH of Teman and His Ashera (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2015), p. 113.
3.
Ruth Schuster, “Governor of Jerusalem’s Seal Impression from First Temple Era Found Near Western Wall,” Haaretz, January 1, 2018; the seal was published in a Hebrew article by Tallay Ornan, Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah, and Benjamin Sass, “A ‘Governor of the City’ Seal Impression from the Western Wall Plaza Excavations in Jerusalem,” Qadmaniot 50 (2017), pp. 100–103.
4.
See Nahman Avigad and Benjamin Sass, Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1997), nos. 402a and 402b. Seal 402a was published in an earlier article by Avigad, and seal 402b was published originally by Gabriel Barkay. There are also private collections of unprovenanced seals that have been published and bear this title, but many of them may be forgeries.