LMLK--List of Updates to this Website (Archive #7)

LMLK Home

Biblical Accounts
NonBiblical Accounts
Theories

HBRN
MMST
SUKE
ZYF
Generic
x (cannot classify)

2-Top
2-Divided
2-Undivided
4-Cursory
4-Lapidarist

Jars
Personal Seals
Incisions

Paleography
Typologies
Corpus
Stratigraphy
Geography

Displays
Publications
Credits
Updates

January-December, 2005

December 29, 2005

Added Mosden #s, cents conversions, perf parameters, estimated 1st-printing quantities to Facts section & many IPP & TIP entries to Bibliography section of Postage page.

December 15, 2005

Added upward-wings bulla photo to King Hezekiah's Seals page; also updated drawings & added 3rd/recarved design.

December 14, 2005

Added British Museum to Placards page; noted its number of handles currently on display on Displays page.
Updated 3-mil 2nd-printing serial numbers on Postage page.

December 3, 2005

Added "Upon This Rock" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.

November 25, 2005

Added #52, #53, #54, #55, #56 handles from Redondo collection to H4L, x2x, Z2D, Z2U, Z4CI pages; updated Corpus totals.

November 19, 2005

Changed Lemaire's reading of the Z4CY from Z4CI to Z4L (Welten's Z Ib 1) on the Typography page.

November 18, 2005

Added "Thirty Years' Work in the Holy Land" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.

November 12, 2005

Created "8-E" section for Arad 15287/1 handle on Stratigraphy page; removed Jerusalem (MTM) ID# 1059 surface handle.

November 7, 2005

Removed 1937 milestone from Publications page erroneously crediting Kurt Galling with "4 royal estates" theory.

October 29, 2005

Added Holy Land Philatelist (HLP) vol. 1 #11 to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
Added Bernstein, Carmel, Kolar, Mosden, Simon, HLP to Bibliography section of Postage page.

October 27, 2005

Added contradictory descriptions of restored jar 60-501.

October 23, 2005

Added #49 & #77 handles from presently unknown locations to the x2x & S4L pages; updated Corpus totals.
Added "Twenty-One Years' Work in the Holy Land" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.

October 22, 2005

Updated quantities of 600 pages & 800 photos on Home page.
Added #12 & #13 handles from the Herb Stearns collection to the x4L & M2D pages.
Added #13, #64, #78, #79, #80, #81, #82 handles from presently unknown locations to the H2D, M2D, M2U, S4L, Z2D pages.
Updated Circles & Corpus totals.

October 15, 2005

Added #94.615 to H2U page; added Yeshiva University Museum to Corpus & Displays pages; added Bonni-Dara Michaels to Credits page.

October 10, 2005

Added H4L stamp from Beth Shemesh via Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs; updated Corpus totals.

October 7, 2005

Added "Congress Volume" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.

October 4, 2005

Updated x4x Zone & H2U, M2U, S2U, S4L, Z4CI distribution Maps based on Gezer handles.

October 3, 2005

Added 12-2000 Hecht Museum text to Placards page.

October 1, 2005

Added handles from Gezer; updated Corpus totals.
Added Siloam BR photo to Ligatures page.
Added Istanbul Archaeological Museum to Displays & Placards pages.

September 11, 2005

Segregated unprovenanced handles from overall totals on Corpus page.
Added BAR vol. 31 #5 to Bibliography section of the Publications page.

September 5, 2005

Added details to Khirbet er-Ras (formerly "Er-Ras") on Corpus page.
Conformed southern map grid to northern map on Geography page.

September 3, 2005

Added photos of double-perf & shifted-streamer errors to Postage page.

August 20, 2005

Added northern map to Geography page.
Added photos of imperf & Tet Dot errors to Postage page; noted square slugs for 65-mil pane #4.

August 14, 2005

Updated Nahal Tut totals & added Nahalal to Geography page; updated Corpus totals.

July 19, 2005

Added new photos & diameters to #8 handle of the Herb Stearns collection.

July 15, 2005

Added "Like a Bird in a Cage" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.

July 12, 2005

Added Josephus 9:13 to NonBiblical Accounts page.
Added near-perfect H4L from Lachish (RAEL #415).
Added Nachal Toot to Geography page; updated Corpus totals.
Added "Amphoras & the Ancient Wine Trade" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.

July 8, 2005

Added modern Arabic site names to the bottom of the SUKE page.

July 2, 2005

Added BAR vol. 31 #4 to Bibliography section of the Publications page.

June 4, 2005

Added replica photo & alternate translations of LMLK ostracon from Lachish

May 8, 2005

Added The Israel Philatelist vol. 34 #1/2 to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
Noted possible forgery of Tel Qasile Ostracon.
Noted rates, UPU colors, Minister of Posts, 3-pruta 1st/2nd printing difference, printer employees, printing press equipment, project dates, printing color sequence, errors, color-bar photos, & bibliography on Postage page.
Created Archive #6.

April 12, 2005

Added "'Atiqot vol. 47" to Bibliography & Errata sections of the Publications page, & its S2U to the Jerusalem page.

April 9, 2005

Added serial # ranges & print-run quantities to Postage page.

April 1, 2005

Quarterly update of Search Engine Statistics (Top 20 Query Words & Most Requested Pages) from Oct-2003 to Mar-2005:

6,598	seal	#1	58,287	Research Home
5,819	photos	#2	25,081	Jars
5,771	concentric	#3	24,710	Updates
5,611	seals	#4	23,383	Paleography
5,504	hebrew	#5	22,580	Geography
4,717	biblical	#6	19,828	Concentric Circles
4,042	israel	#7	19,372	Biblical Accounts
3,974	circles	#8	19,364	Personal Seals
3,710	personal	#9	19,356	Theories
3,630	map	#10	16,963	Corpus
3,192	jerusalem	#11	16,251	Publications by Author
3,138	paleo	#12	16,208	HBRN
3,042	jars	#13	15,692	Publications by Date
2,998	script	#14	15,316	NonBiblical Accounts
2,988	lmlk	#15	13,697	Publications by Main Title
2,842	sinaitic	#16	13,304	Publications by Article Title
2,835	proto	#17	12,791	MMST
2,799	lachish	#18	12,570	Typologies
2,744	typologies	#19	12,385	Generic LMLK Seals
2,734	museum	#20	11,695	Jerusalem

March 12, 2005

Replaced tete-beche stamp photo with Kefar Ata sheet-heart photo on Postage page; noted that prior issues said "Hebrew Post" instead of "Israel".

March 1, 2005

Added Isaiah 31 to Biblical Accounts page.
Added Harper's New Monthly Magazine vol. 43 to Bibliography section of the Publications page.

February 24, 2005

Added paragraphs about Yigael Yadin & Ebla tablets to the Herb Stearns page.
Added "Archaeology in the Land of the Bible" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.

February 21, 2005

Added RAEL #273 page, & noted its "Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish" correction on Errata page.

February 19, 2005

Added H4L, H2D, M2D, S2DW, Z2D, Circles, Rosette handles from the Herb Stearns collection; updated Corpus totals.
Added ID#5 & ID#6 handles with Rosettes from the private collection in Boston.

February 17, 2005

Corrected M2D from "Lion Encyclopedia" as an alternate-lighting photo of the same stamp from Lachish (PEQ, 1941, #7-15); updated Circles statistics.

February 12, 2005

Added photo placeholder for M2D from "Lion Encyclopedia"; updated Circles statistics.
Added S2U from Lachish (RAEL #414) & H2U (ID #1) at the Living Torah Museum.
Removed siege-ramp photo from Lachish page & created new page for Tel Lachish photos.
Noted transfer of Harvey Herbert's handles from Brooklyn Museum on Corpus page; removed Brooklyn Museum & added Living Torah Museum to Displays page; added Brooklyn Museum of Art to Placards page.
Added H4L from Harvey Herbert's undamaged, unbroken jar to Jars page & Milestones section of the Publications page; added "Lion Encyclopedia" to Bibliography section.
Replaced 5mil color tab photo with 10mil corner on Postage page.

February 10, 2005

Added B&S vol. 18 #1 to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
Added FDC Hebrew-English to Postage page.

January 29, 2005

Added Handle "A" (M2U) & Handle "B" (S4L) from the private collection of William Ellwanger.
Added x2x with Circles & M2D from private collection in Korea.
Updated Corpus totals & charts.
Revised & added new photos of #92 (H2U) from the Michael Welch collection; also added his Rosette handles #8, #9, #10.

January 25, 2005

Added Kenyon Reg. No. 6801 (IAA# 1968-1203) to Jerusalem & M2D pages; added RAEL #291 (IAA# 1933-2107) to Lachish, S2U, & Chemical pages.
Added 3 more Rosette Stamp Samples courtesy of Gil & Lisa Chaya.
Added 300-stamp sheet layout, color bar photo, & tete-beche photo to Postage page.

January 22, 2005

Added RAEL #s to all 8 pages of jars from David Ussishkin's excavations at Lachish; added photos of Jar 8162 (top view & #352-16 H4L handle) & Jar 8585 (alternate side view) from "Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish Vols. 1 & 4".
Added H2U stamp (RAEL #403-67) & S2U stamp (RAEL #407-71) from "Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish Vols. 1 & 4" to Stratigraphy page.
Added "Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish Vol. 4" to Errata page.
Added Hebrew texts to Postage page.

January 17, 2005

Created Postage page & added link on Home page.
Added Herb Stearns to Corpus & Credits pages.
Added photo placeholders on Z2D & x2x pages for Horn Archaeological Museum handles that cannot be displayed.
Added incision & ware depth measurements & cross-section slice photo of #91 from the Michael Welch collection.
Added photo of Lachish on fire; moved Lachish statistics to new Lachish Corpus page.
Added "Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin vol. 46", "Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish Vols. 1 & 4", & "Grena's Review of RAEL" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
Added Lachish Letter #5 to Ostraca page.

January 14, 2005

Divided PPP ware classificatios on Jars page into PPP & WPP; reclassified Field # 542 from Gibeon accordingly & separated it along with another WPP from Lachish on the Pithoi page.
Added "Stopping" speculation to bottom of Jars page.

January 5, 2004

Added original stamp photo of #96 from the Michael Welch collection to document the brittle slip flaking off.
Quarterly update of Search Engine Statistics (Top 20 Query Words & Most Requested Pages) from Oct-2003 to Dec-2004:

5,703	seal	#1	41,062	Research Home
4,829	seals	#2	19,076	Paleography
4,775	photos	#3	18,657	Geography
4,461	concentric	#4	17,637	Updates
4,402	hebrew	#5	17,049	Jars
4,135	biblical	#6	16,028	Theories
3,419	israel	#7	15,732	Concentric Circles
3,286	personal	#8	15,685	Personal Seals
3,073	circles	#9	15,583	Biblical Accounts
3,071	map	#10	14,373	Corpus
2,879	script	#11	12,651	HBRN
2,790	proto	#12	12,490	NonBiblical Accounts
2,790	sinaitic	#13	10,865	Publications by Author
2,700	jars	#14	10,547	Publications by Date
2,592	jerusalem	#15	10,523	MMST
2,542	typologies	#16	10,149	Typologies
2,491	paleo	#17	9,983	Generic LMLK Seals
2,420	lachish	#18	9,400	King Hezekiah's Seals
2,320	museum	#19	9,313	Michael Welch's Collection
2,319	tell	#20	9,234	Jerusalem

January 3, 2005

Revised all drawing files using thinner lines.
Added an order of magnitude to the measurements on the Seal Sets page along with the approximate surface area, thereby enabling the x4C seals to be grouped together.

January 1, 2005

Added handles #91, #94, #98, #99, #100, #101, #103, #104, #105, #106, #107, #108, #109 from the Michael Welch collection; revised pages for handles #93, #95, #96, #97, #102; updated Corpus totals.
Made minor adjustments to Z2D & Z2T drawings.
Added links to 2 handles in the Michael Welch collection on the Plus Marks page.
Added Rosette handles #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7 from the Michael Welch collection.

Number of visits:

This page was created on January 1, 2005, & last updated on December 29, 2005