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Title: Nouvelles remarques sur la datation des estampilles lmlk
Author(s): LEMAIRE, André
Journal: Semitica
Volume: 63    Date: 2021   
Pages: 183-202
DOI: 10.2143/SE.63.0.3289902

Abstract :
After a critical review of the dating of the lmlk seal-impressions during the last fifty years (8th or 7th century BCE?), the publication of seal-impressions from old excavations in Tell Sheikh Ahmed el-'Areini, Tell Judeideh, Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi, Tell Zakaria and Gezer, as well as recent publications of new seal-impressions, show that the so-called 'late' lmlk seal-impressions (IIb, IIc, XII) were probably used in the Shephelah before Sennacherib’s conquest in 701 BCE.

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