Endnote 4 – King Hezekiah’s Seal Bears Phoenician Imagery

Downward ticks on the lower horizontal strokes of the zayin are probably present, though the traces are faint (Deutsch has not shown them on his drawing). The curved, lowest horizontal of the he of ḥzqyhw is characteristic of the Siloam script. The yod is large, with no tendency to suppress or elevate the lowest horizontal (as in seventh- and sixth-century scripts). The ḥet is a box form, as occasionally seen in the l’melekh handles, with little breakthrough of the verticals.