Biblical Archaeology Review

Here the Hebrew text omits an internal heh from the name and the English rendering is Jucal.

The second name on the seal is Shelemiyahu, a variant of Shelemya or, in the English spelling, Shelemiah. In Hebrew, Shelemiyahu simply adds a vov to the end of the Shelemyah.

Similar pottery has been found at other Iron I sites, such as Giloh and Shiloh. See Amihai Mazar, “Giloh: An Early Iron Israelite Settlement Site Near Jerusalem,” Israel Exploration Journal 31 (1981), pp. 1-36 and Israel Finkelstein, ed., “Shiloh: The Archaeology of a Biblical Site,” Tel Aviv 10, 1993.

We will be able to deduce the exact construction date of the installations from further in-depth research regarding the numerous coins we found in the walls.

Yigal Shiloh, “The Proto-Aeolic Capitals and Israelite Ashlar Masonry,” Qedem 11.

Kenyon, Digging Up Jerusalem, p. 103.

Kenyon, “Excavations in Jerusalem 1962,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 95 (1963), p. 18.

Kathleen M. Kenyon, Digging Up Jerusalem (New York: Praeger, 1974), p. 114.

Eilat Mazar, “Excavate King David’s Palace,” BAR 23:01. See also Mazar, “The Undiscovered Palace of King David in Jerusalem—A Study in Biblical Archaeology,” in Avi Faust, ed., New Studies on Jerusalem (Ramat Gan, Israel: Bar-Ilan Univ., 1996), pp. 9-20 (Hebrew).