You are hereHomeBARNovember/December 1995Royal Signature: Name of Israel’s Last King Surfaces in a Private Collection Gösta W. Ahlström has proposed the tenth-century B.C.E. king Jeroboam I of Israel (The Seal of Shema, Scandinavian Journal on the Old Testament 7 [1993], pp. 208215), but this early dating does not fit the paleography or iconography. Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.