May-July, 2002

July 30, 2002	Registered LMLK Dotcom (www.lmlk.com) (presently, it forwards hits to this website, but it will eventually (maybe in 2004) forward hits to a commercial site selling LMLK research tools such as clear film line drawings in actual size & enlargements for various monitor configurations (i.e., 15", 17", 19", 21", 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864), a CD photo library of impressions from the Redondo Beach collection, the forthcoming book, "LMLK--A Mystery Belonging to the King", & links to other sites where LMLK-related publications can be purchased; this website (lmlk.home.att.net) will always remain a non-profit, knowledge base for research).
July 28, 2002	Added 7.d.6 (icons indicate different contents) to Theories page.
July 18, 2002	Revised the G2T & Z2U drawings & noted stray marks on their respective pages. Added 5 handles to En Gedi on Corpus page that were mentioned in IEJ vol. 14 #3 but mistakenly overlooked by Welten, Garfinkel, & Vaughn in their corpora.
July 17, 2002	Noted the distinction between Lemaire's "O II" type & the asymmetric 2-winged icon on G2B page.
July 16, 2002	Noted typical oval size & reason for use of "personal" over "private" or "official" on Personal Seals page; made minor revisions to lists based on BASOR 304.
July 15, 2002	Noted depths of MSH, GB'N, & personal seals handles on Gibeon Pool page. Added flying icon animation to Credits page.
July 13, 2002	Noted composite drawing of 2 types based on 5 photos on King Hezekiah's Seal page. Noted "leather-hard" explanation & possibility of upside-down jar orientation on Jars page.
July 12, 2002	Completed Vaughn's listing (i.e., seals not published by Sass/Avigad) on Personal Seals page.
July 11, 2002	Added 7.b.6 & 7.b.7 (2-winged icons indicate vassalship to Assyria or alliance with Babylon) to Theories page. Revised transliteration info on Generic page.
July 10, 2002	Added "LMLK" grammar & transliteration info to Generic page. Added Robin Knauth to Credits page.
July 9, 2002	Added English lettering & Alphabetical Sort to Personal Seals page. Added (lmlk mm)ST from M2T to Paleography page. Added Corpus Trend chart to Corpus page. Added 1989 Garfinkel corpus to Milestones section of Publications page; moved Errata section to a separate page.
July 5, 2002	Noted mysterious first letter & alternate readings at the top of the M2T page. Created Lachish Room 4014 page; added link & noted Timnah skeleton on Jars page. Added RB vol. 9 to Bibliography section of Publications page.
July 4, 2002	Incorporated impressions from "'Atiqot vol. 9-10", "Excavations & Surveys in Israel 1988/89 vol. 7-8", "Winery, Defenses, & Soundings at Gibeon" on multiple pages; revised Ashdod & Jezreel sub-quantites on Corpus page. Removed Tell Beit Mirsim jar pages (104 & 2465) since they were not stamped. Added Ashdod handle to Stratigraphy page; added 2 debris handles to Gibeon Pool page. Added "'Atiqot vol. 9-10", BAR vol. 28 #4, "Excavations & Surveys in Israel 1988/89 vol. 7-8", "Nimrud & Its Remains", "Winery, Defenses, & Soundings at Gibeon" to Bibliography section of Publications page. Added lion to LMLK Weights page.
July 3, 2002	Combined photos of #152 & #155 from Qedem 29 on Z2D page & listed it in Errata section of Publications page. Added 5 impressions from "The Citadel of Beth-Zur" & 1 from "Excavations at Jericho vol. 4" to multiple impression pages & updated Jericho sub-quantites on Corpus page. Revised the content of LMRA page based on IEJ vol. 45 #1. Added BASOR 43, "The Citadel of Beth-Zur", "Excavations at Jericho vol. 4", IEJ vol. 45 #1 to Bibliography section of Publications page.
July 2, 2002	Added word divider dots to King Hezekiah's Seal. Incorporated 7 Gibeah impressions on multiple pages. Revised S4L drawing to show S-W ligature & M2T drawing to clarify S-T size. Added AASOR v4, AASOR v34-5, AASOR v45, PEQ 7-1900 to Bibliography section of Publications page; added 1874 Clermont-Ganneau & 1900 Bliss to the Milestones section.
July 1, 2002	Added sub-quantities for Macalister/Duncan's Jerusalem excavation to Corpus page. Added "Digging Up Biblical History vol. 2", PEQ 7-1893, PEQ 4-1899, PEQ 7-1899, PEQ 1-1900, "Scripta Hierosolymitana vol. 8" to Bibliography section of Publications page; added 1893 Sayce, 1899 Hilprecht, 1899 Bliss to the Milestones section.
June 29, 2002	Noted lid/stopper types with 5.b (Jars--Type 484 Contents) on Theories page. Created Timnah 7280 page & replaced its black/white photo on M2U page. Revised paragraphs in Usage Speculation section of Jars page. Added BAR vol. 15 #1, "Eretz-Israel vol. 9 (by Mazar)", TA vol. 17 #1 to Bibliography section of Publications page.
June 28, 2002	Received significant permission from David Ussishkin to display photos on multiple pages (most importantly: H4C, H4L, & the restored Lachish Jars). Added BA vol. 35 #4 & BAR vol. 5 #6 to Bibliography section of Publications page.
June 27, 2002	Emphasized the bottom-to-top reading on King Hezekiah's Seal page. Added 5.d (Jars--Purpose) to Theories page. Added photo from encyclopedias & dictionary to Jar 10074 page. Added technical details (including a distribution chart of all handles) on Gibeon Pool page along with a modern photo of it. Added "Law & Ideology in Monarchic Israel" to Bibliography section of Publications page.
June 26, 2002	On Theories page, changed note under 7.b. (Seal Inscriptions) to describe register order instead of excavation context (since that info is now available on the Stratigraphy page) & changed 8.d (Personal Seals belong to Levites instead of associating them with King Hezekiah, which is described on the Personal Seals page). Revised first paragraph on Personal Seals page to note their association with 2-winged seals. Added Magill Library to Displays page. Added Qedem 42 p.95 to Errata section & HTR v64 #2-3 (Kuschke) to Bibliography section of Publications page.
June 23, 2002	Added totals near the top of the Publications & Bibliography pages (Main Title, Article Title, Author/Editor, Date).
June 21, 2002	Added 2Chronicles 31 to Personal Seals page. Revised sub-quantities for Beithar, Debir, Gezer, Gibeon, Jerusalem, Rimmon, Timnah on Corpus page; added Manahat quantity. Added Manahath to Geography page. Added Kefar Etzion Museum to Displays page. Added "Theology, History, & Archaeology in the Chronicler's Account of Hezekiah" to Errata section of Publications page.
June 18, 2002	Added "Land of the Bible (Revised & Enlarged Edition)" to Bibliography section of Publications page.
June 15, 2002	Added Jerusalem (SCD) handles to Stratigraphy page & created separate page for the Gibeon Pool.
June 14, 2002	Added "L'epigrafia Ebraica Antica" to Bibliography section of Publications page; also added Tufnell 1948 to Milestones section.
June 13, 2002	Added "Biblisches Reallexikon" (1937 & 1977) & "Il Colle di Rachele" to Bibliography section of Publications page; also added "Biblisches Reallexikon" (1977) to Errata section.
June 11, 2002	Created LMLK Ostracon page & added its link on Home page. Added H2D from IEJ vol. 20 #3-4, x4L from IEJ vol. 39, H2U & H4L from "Israel in Antiquity" to respective impression pages & updated Corpus page along with Bethel sub-quantities. Added "Half LMLK" jar to BT LMLK page. Added 1964 Study section to Chemical Analyses page. Added Archaeometry vol. 7, IEJ vol. 20 #3-4 (Avigad), IEJ vol. 39, "Israel in Antiquity", JNES vol. 10 #4, TA vol. 2 #4 to Bibliography section of Publications page.
June 10, 2002	Added popup window links over letters on Paleography page along with minor revisions to certain letters. Noted stamped handle ratios in Complete Jars section of Jars page.
June 8, 2002	Created Bullae page & added links to it on Home & Theories pages.
June 7, 2002	Added Num. 3:27 & 26:58 to HBRN page. Added "Ancient Near East" (vol. 1 & 2), "Archaeology of the Land of the Bible (vol. 1 & 2)", BA vol. 38, BASOR 248, "Excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem Near the Temple Mount", IEJ vol. 18 #4, "Scripture & Other Artifacts" to Bibliography section of Publications page. Added sub-quantities for Ashdod, Beth Huron, Hurvat Shilhah to Corpus page.
June 6, 2002	Added (sd) in Bible quotes to distinguish between plene/defectiva on HBRN, SUKE, ZYF pages. Added "Excavations in Palestine During the Years 1898-1900" to Bibliography section of Publications page.
June 4, 2002	Removed sound from Home page & made minor layout changes to all other pages.
May 31, 2002	Created Incised LMLK Jar page & added a link to it on the Jars page. Added PEQ vol. 80, "Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions vol. 1 & 2", "Windows to the Past" to Bibliography section of Publications page.
May 30, 2002	Created LMLK Weights page & added H2U 3:00 from "Forty New Ancient West Semitic Inscriptions". Added weird tri-stamped handle (JM 12-73.277) found at Lachish to x4L page. Confirmed identity of #1068 as an H4C & revised appropriate pages. Added locus info on Lachish Jar 10457, Jar 10091, Jar 10074, Jar 8162, Jar 8580, Jar 8585 pages & added each of them to Stratigraphy page along with all 4 Tell Beit Mirsim handles. Created pages for Jar 10616 & Jar 31266, added links to them on the Jars page, listed them on the Stratigraphy page. Added Plus Mark handle found at Lachish to Incisions & H4L pages. Added "Excavation of Gezer vol. 2", "Forty New Ancient West Semitic Inscriptions", TA v4 #1-2, TA v10 #2 to Bibliography section of Publications page.
May 29, 2002	Revised H2T (including photo of Gibeon #145), H4C, Z4CI line drawings & resized many of their impression photos. Added important Gibeon pool note to Stratigraphy page based on correlation of x2D & x2U depths with stratified data from other sites. Added "Kedem: Studies in Jewish Archaeology" & "Survey of Western Palestine: Jerusalem" to Bibliography section of Publications page. Added British Museum details to Displays page & added Jonathan Tubb to Credits page.
May 28, 2002	Added photo of circles overlapping an icon to the Circles section of the Incisions page. Moved M4C into same class as Z4CY on Seal Sets page. Added Beersheba data & Tell 'Ira comment to Stratigraphy page.
May 27, 2002	Revised the Circles section of the Incisions page by adding Mizpah photos & replacing impression listings with a comment relating the known data to stratigraphic evidence. Added Lachish (Aharoni) data to Stratigraphy page along with comments about Mizpah data. Added general comment about misuse of Welten's system by IEJ vol. 34 #2-3, specific error of "Large handle" by IEJ vol. 34 #2-3, classification error (570/2) in "Investigations at Lachish" in Errata section of Publications page.
May 26, 2002	Added note from David Diringer under impression "x2x, 3:00, AGG, 2 (AB16x, I, X67)" on 2-x page. Added detail page links to impression pages for 71 new Mizpah handles.
May 25, 2002	Added 5:00, 7:00, 8:00 Orientation links to Jars page. Created 71 pages for detailed photos of Mizpah handles, added links to Corpus & Chemical Analyses pages, revised Jar 396 page to include new color photos of detailed views. Added Tell ash-Shuqf sub-quantities on Corpus page. Added Ruth Ohm, The UCB Doe Library, The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library of the Graduate Theological Union to Credits page.
May 24, 2002	Added 71 new Mizpah impression photos to multiple impression pages & revised Mizpah sub-quantities on Corpus page. Renamed all x2N types to x2T; renamed G2L to G2T due to discovery of circles on Mizpah Z2T. Created Rigid & Wavy sub-classifications on 2-x page. Updated line drawings for x2T & Z4CY seals based on new Mizpah photos, & replaced the seal formerly used for identifying the G2B type with one known from 2 sites (City of David & Mizpah) with asymmetric wings; also added a paragraph of comments to the G2B page & made appropriate revisions to Typologies page. Moved G2B into a separate row/column on Seal Sets page.
May 13, 2002	Added BA 12 #4 to Errata section of Publications page & removed the page dedicated to this jar (unid-ba12-3) from the website since Type 482 jars are out-of-scope.
May 11, 2002	Added 7.e.19 (LMLK = Ammonite deity) to Theories page. Created Jar 7094 page & added links to it on Home & Jars pages. Added Qedem 42 photos to impression pages, updated photo totals on Typologies page, updated totals & Timnah sub-quantities on Corpus page. Added Timnah content to Stratigraphy page. Added several Qedem 42 listings to Errata section of Publications page (updated Errata for IEJ vol. 34 #2-3 based on this new info) & added Qedem 42 to the Bibliography section.
May 8, 2002	Revised all 12 impression pages to only show drawings & link to 25 separate seal pages; added same links to Typologies page.
May 7, 2002	Added 7.e.18 (wartime designations/purposes) to Theories page. Created Jar 7202-2 & linked to it on Jars page.
May 6, 2002	Added Diringer/Lapp/Aharoni's I Zb to Typologies page; Aharoni made this addition in "Beer-Sheba I".
May 4, 2002	Added Diringer/Lapp/Aharoni's III Me, III Zb, III Zc to Typologies page along with necessary modifications; Aharoni made these additions in "Excavations...'61 & '62" & "Investigations at (Lachish V)". Added "Investigations at Lachish (V)" to Bibliography section & Errata section of Publications page & incorporated its 15 new impression photos.
May 3, 2002	Added IEJ vol. 6 #3 & "Excavations at Ramat Rahel '59 & '60" to Bibliography section of Publications page & incorporated their 17 new impression photos. Added (l)M(lk) of G2T to Paleography page.
May 2, 2002	Added Lapp/Aharoni sub-classes to Diringer's system on Typologies page & created Diringer/Lapp/Aharoni sort. Added Qadmoniot vol. 9 #2-3 & vol. 15 #2-3 to Bibliography section, added "Excavations at Ramat Rahel '59 & '60" to Errata section of Publications page.
May 1, 2002	Moved all content from password-protected temp directory to public URL.

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