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| 'Atiqot vol. 47 |
p. 179, under "Iron II LMLK Stamped Handle" |
"Type SIIb" |
"Type S IIa" |
Photo 13:2 clearly shows the S2U Kaf-Hey ligature. |
| The Archaeology of the Land of Israel |
p. 258; middle |
"At Arad one four-winged impression was found belonging to the fragment of a jar in Stratum VIII, while the other isolated seal impresions cannot be stratigraphically assigned." |
"At Arad one four-winged impression & one two-winged impression were found in Stratum VII, while two two-winged impressions were found in Stratum VIII; the other five isolated seal impresions cannot be stratigraphically assigned." |
This directly conflicts with what the same authors published in "Arad Inscriptions". The context in this book is that both icons predate the division between these 2 strata. |
| BA 12 #4 |
p. 73; Figure 3 caption |
"Upper part of the 'royal' stamped jar shown in Fig. 1" |
Not shown since it is an unstamped Type 482 (not 484) as described by Olga Tufnell in the Plate 78 listing (photos #4 & #8) of "Lachish III (Plates)". |
Upper part of Fig.1 is actually shown in Fig. 2 |
| Biblisches Reallexikon (1977) |
p. 304, first sentence in upper-right corner |
"...Tell en-Nasbe (145)..." |
"...Tell en-Nasbe (86)..." |
Typo repeats the previous listing for "Hirbet Salih (145)" |
| Die Konigs-Stempel |
p. 182, under "Beth-Semes" |
"951 H II" |
"951 Z IIB 2" |
This handle was examined firsthand for this website but Haverford College has disallowed publication of photos; "951" is written in ink on its jar-side & the impression clearly shows the Z2U top-register slash |
| Excavations at Ramat Rahel Seasons 1959 & 1960 |
p. 19, bottom paragraph |
"class I; Pl. 7, 1-2" & "class II; Pl. 7, 3" |
"class I; Pl. 7, 1" & "class II; Pl. 7, 2-3" |
Deeply impressed H4L was misinterpreted as an H4C |
| Excavations at Ramat Rahel Seasons 1959 & 1960 |
Plates 7-1 & 29-1 |
from seasons 1959 & 1960 |
from either 1959 or 1960 |
Did they bury it in 1959 & re-excavate it in 1960?!! |
| Hebrew Inscriptions & Stamps from Gibeon |
p. 23, "Catalogue" |
"Field No. 335; Type I" |
Should have been listed under Type II on p. 24 |
Deeply impressed M4L was misinterpreted as an M4C |
| IEJ 34 #2-3 |
p. 95, Table 1; Tel Batash reg #7114 |
"MIB(?)" |
"S IB 1" |
Photo of impression is shown on this website |
| IEJ 34 #2-3 |
p. 95-99, Table 1 Seal Types column |
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Generally misleading since it only relates partial Welten classifiers. A typical example is the first listing on p. 98 for an "HIIB"; photos of this handle (along with many others from Nasbeh) are shown on this website & it is clearly an H2D; however, Welten's system classifies this type as "H IIB 2" & classifies an H2U as "H IIB 1", so without photographs it's impossible to know which seal the authors of IEJ 34 used! |
| IEJ 34 #2-3 |
p. 98, Table 1; Tell en-Nasbeh Lab No. 76 comment |
"Large handle" |
"Handle with large jar fragment" |
Photo of handle is shown on this website; the handle is of a normal Type 484 size whereas pithoi handles are appropriately described as "large" relative to Type 484s--this is definitely not a pithos handle |
| IEJ 54 #2 |
p. 202, middle paragraph |
"ROS-015 ... type III.B" |
"ROS-015 ... type III.C" |
P. 203 says "type III.C impression on ROS-015", Appendix 2 lists it as "III.C.6" as in Fig. 11 of IEJ 45 #4 |
| Investigations at Lachish (V) |
p. 17, table; No. 624/1 Plate 19:2 |
"I Hb" |
"II Za" |
A perfect match when compared to No. 570/1 Plate 19:4 with line drawing on clear film |
| Investigations at Lachish (V) |
p. 17, table; No. 794/1 Plate 19:11 |
"II Sa" |
"I Hb" |
A perfect match with the H4L based on the visible tops of the bottom-register letters relative to the top-register letters |
| Investigations at Lachish (V) |
p. 17, table; No. 570/2 Plate 19:10 |
"I Za" |
"I Ha" |
A perfect match with the H4C based primarily on the position of the Lamed relative to the icon's head |
| Jewish Quarter Excavations vol. I |
p. 244, lower-left paragraph |
"Only ten stamped jars could be restored..." |
"Only eleven stamped jars could be restored, one from Tell en-Nasbeh,..." |
This was the first jar ever restored, but wasn't published till 1947--six years after one from Lachish; three more jars from Timnah were published in 2001. |
| Jewish Quarter Excavations vol. I |
p. 246, lower-left paragraph |
"This new, previously ignored series of seals, brings to 26 the total number of seals from which the royal seal-impressions were made." |
"This new, previously ignored series of seals, brings to 22 the total number of seals from which the royal seal-impressions may have been made." |
Lemaire listed 20 seals known & speculated on 2 others; Barkay adds 2 more known for a total of 22 known & speculates on 2 others for a total of 4 more possible. In an earlier publication he recommended adding another new type, PII, which would bring his total to 27 altogether. |
| Jewish Quarter Excavations vol. I |
p. 246, upper-right paragraph |
"This rare type of lmlk seal was first discovered in Jerusalem in the excavations of M. Parker." |
"This rare type of lmlk seal was first discovered in Gezer in the excavations of R.A. Stewart Macalister." |
Vincent's 1911 publication of Parker's excavations was the first to include an M2T drawing, but Macalister was the first to discover one. |
| Khirbet Nisya: The Search for Biblical Ai, 1979-2002 |
Appendix III |
p. 269; 1987; Reg. #21; Locus 41.1.7; Bird Seat On Handle |
p. 268; 1985; Reg. #21; Locus 41.1.7; Lamelech Seal On Handle |
Personal correspondence from David Livingston |
| Lachish III (Plates) |
p. facing Plate 46 |
Other Sites: 550 |
Other Sites: 182 |
The number 550 represented the total of all sites including Tell ed-Duweir |
| LMLK--A Mystery Belonging to the King vol. 1 |
p. 340, Table 31 |
Type (none); ID# 120 |
Type x2x; ID# 120, S.36, 60-13-61 |
Omitted seal type, Stamp # & Museum ID# |
| LMLK--A Mystery Belonging to the King vol. 1 |
p. 340, Table 31 |
(omitted) |
#269 Key 4,
#357 Key 6,
#398 Key 6 |
Handles with x2x stamps were omitted, but all with Circles should have been included; the impact to Figure 69 on page 345 is minor so that the Datum statement under the figure remains the same. |
| LMLK--A Mystery Belonging to the King vol. 1 |
p. 341, Table 31 |
530, S.530, 60-13-127 |
530, S.217, 60-13-127 |
Stamp number typo |
| LMLK--A Mystery Belonging to the King vol. 1 |
p. 341, Table 31 |
ID# 524, Depth of 10.7-11.8m |
ID# 554, Depth of 10.7-11.8m |
Field number typo |
| LMLK--A Mystery Belonging to the King vol. 1 |
p. 341, Table 31 |
ID# 524, Depth of 10.7-11.8m |
ID# 524, Depth of 9.0-9.8m |
The impact to Figure 62 on page 342 is minor, in that it extends the gray bar for Depth Key 9 to a quantity of 5; the Datum statement under the figure remains the same. |
| PEQ vol. 73 |
p. 98 |
reference to Plate VI, fig. 15 |
reference to Plate VII, fig. 15 |
He describes an M2x handle with Circles but refers to an S4L photo; it's highly unlikely that the sentence is misplaced from pp. 96 or 97 |
| Qedem 29 |
p. 134, #24, Reg. #3765/15 |
Redundant listing of the same handle |
Delete #24 & keep #21, Reg. #3374 |
According to Eilat Mazar, this is the same impression mistakenly photographed twice (p. 139, photos 152 & 155) |
| Qedem 42 |
p. 95, lower-left paragraph |
"over 70 LMLK seal impressions in Macalister's excavations at Gezer" |
"at least 9 LMLK seal impressions in Macalister's excavations at Gezer" |
Welten's 1969 book lists 9 handles in its corpus between pp.189-190, none of Macalister's reports (quoted by Welten) allude to such a large quantity, & the German word for 70 ("siebzig") is not on pp.65-6 as referenced in Qedem 42 |
| Qedem 42 |
p. 191, paragraph B.1 |
"the letters do not resemble any of the common city names" |
"the letters clearly show the inverted yod & final peh of Type Z Ia" |
Table 38 on p. 196 for Pl. 18:1 is "blank, I, blank", s/b "ZYF, Z Ia, Z IA 1" (i.e., Z4CI) |
| Qedem 42 |
p. 192, paragraph B.2 |
"Lemaire's Type ZIa & Welten's Type ZIA" |
"Lemaire's Type Z Ib & Welten's Type Z IB 1" |
Final Peh & divider dot unique to the Lapidarist type are exceptionally clear; Table 38 on p. 196 for Pl. 18:2 is "ZIa, ZIA", s/b "Z Ib, Z IB 1" (i.e., Z4L) |
| Qedem 42 |
p. 192, paragraph B.3 |
"only one letter, mem, is preserved, probably part of MMST" |
"two letters (lm)L(k s)W(kh) are preserved" |
Photo 114 is properly oriented but shows the impression upside-down (a 6:00 orientation) leading to the misinterpretation; Table 38 on p. 196 for Pl. 18:3 is "blank, MI?, blank", s/b "SUKE, S Ib, S IB 1" (i.e., S4L) |
| Qedem 42 |
p. 192, paragraph B.4 |
"upper parts of the letters yod & pe of the name ZYF, though this is not certain" |
"upper parts of the letters resh & nun of the name HBRN" |
Icon does not match Z2U but perfectly matches H2U using clear film line drawings; Table 38 on p. 196 for Pl. 19:1 is "ZYF?, blank, blank", s/b "HBRN, H IIa, H IIB 1" (i.e., H2U) |
| Qedem 42 |
p. 193, paragraph B.7 |
"The type cannot be determined." |
"The is Welten's type Z IIB 2 (Lemaire's Z IIa) based on the unique mark adjacent to the letters LM." |
Table 38 on p. 196 for Pl. 19:4 is "blank, blank, blank", s/b "ZYF, Z IIa, Z IIB 2" (i.e., Z2U) |
| Qedem 42 |
p. 193-4, paragraph B.9 |
"Nothing remains of the city name" |
"Like reg no. 7115, this impression was also distorted by shifting the seal from right to left--specifically, the top register was impressed slightly clockwise while the bottom register was impressed slightly counter-clockwise. The upper part of the SUKE letters Shin, Vau, & Hey are clear, but the Kaph is missing due to the handle's ridge." |
Table 38 on p. 196 for Pl. 19:6 is "blank, blank, IB", s/b "SUKE, S Ib, S IB 1" (i.e., S4L) |
| Qedem 42 |
p. 194, paragraph B.12 |
"The type cannot be determined" |
"Lemaire's Type S IIb; Welten's Type S IIB 1" |
Based on line drawing plate 59:16; Table 38 on p. 196 for Pl. 59:16 is "blank, blank", s/b "S IIb, S IIB 1" (i.e., S2DW) |
| RB vol. 79 #3 |
p. 441, paragraph "f" |
"provient de Tell Zachariah" |
"provient de Karmel près de la ville moderne de el-Khalil" |
Confirmed by Jean-Baptiste Humbert at the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise, Jerusalem |
| The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish Vol. 4 |
pp. 2134 & 2145, Jar VII |
"Capacity 44.75 litres." |
"Capacity 43.00 litres." |
Per p. 77 of TA vol. 5 #1-2 |
| The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish Vol. 4 |
pp. 2137 & 2140 |
"No. 68. Reg. No. 38207. Type H IIb." |
"No. 68. Reg. No. 38207. Type H IIa." |
Obvious H2U per Fig. 29.15 (6) |
| The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish Vol. 4 |
p. 2157 |
"No. 273. Museum No. BM 132072. Type M II?." |
"No. 273. Museum No. BM 132072. Type M IIb. With incised concentric circles." |
Obvious M2D; alternate museum No. BM 1956-04-16, 14; click here for details |
| The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish Vol. 4 |
p. 2158 |
"No. 313. Museum No. MHA40. Type S Ia." |
"No. 313. Museum No. MHA40. Type S Ib." |
Obvious S4L per photo & drawing provided by Dr. Irit Ziffer, curator of the Eretz Israel Museum |
| TA vol. 23 #1 |
p. 63, bottom paragraph |
"HIb ... Fig. 38:1 ... HIIa" |
either "S IIa ... Fig. 38:1 ... H Ib" or "H Ib ... Fig. 38:2" |
Not enough detail to determine which handle(s) the author(s) refer to in the book, "Ancient Hebrew Arts" |
| Theology, History, & Archaeology in the Chronicler's Account of Hezekiah |
p. 190, f/n 27 |
"originally published 83 LMLK impressions" |
"originally published 80 LMLK impressions" |
Typo has a -3 ripple effect on the Gibeon quantity (p. 190), the overall total at the top of p. 185, both quantities in Table 9 on p. 166, & Vaughn's editing of Pritchard's quoted paragraph on p. 154; also note that Pritchard published 3 of the handles (S.496, S.504, & S.515 in "Winery, Defenses, & Soundings at Gibeon") Vaughn states were unpublished; so to clarify this situation, Pritchard originally published 80, then published 3 more at a later date for a total of 83, then Vaughn discovered 9 more that Pritchard never published although he thought he discovered 12 more |
| Theology, History, & Archaeology in the Chronicler's Account of Hezekiah |
p. 193, f/n 50 |
"The succeeding Stratum VII revealed 1 lmlk impression..." |
"1 lmlk impression was found out of context..." |
'Atiqot vol. 9-10 states that this handle was found in Ashdod's Stratum 2--not 7. |
| Timnah: A Biblical City in the Sorek Valley |
p. 133, top paragraph |
"One of these has an illegile four-winged sealing on one handle" |
"One of these has a four-winged seal reading LMLK ZYF with an inverted yod on one handle" |
Z4CI--same misreading noted above for Qedem 42 p. 191, paragraph B.1 |
| Timnah: A Biblical City in the Sorek Valley |
p. 133, middle paragraph |
"Six more ... Two of these are illegible four-winged seal impressions" |
"Seven more ... Three of these are four-winged seal impressions reading SUKE, ZYF, & one illegible" |
Handle ID #s 7114 (S4L), 7115 (x4L), & 7358 (Z4L) per Qedem 42 |
| Timnah: A Biblical City in the Sorek Valley |
p. 133, middle paragraph |
"... three of these impressions were legible, with the names of the cities Ziph and Mamshat." |
"... three of these impressions were legible, with the names of the cities Hebron, Ziph, and Mamshat." |
Handle ID # 7359 (H2U) as noted above for Qedem 42 p. 192, paragraph B.4 |
| VT vol. 29 #1 |
p. 75, f/n 37 |
"F. M. Cross, and J. T. Milik, BASOR 142 (1956), p. 16, n. 27 (Kh. Qumran)" |
"R. de Vaux, 'Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls,' (London 1973) p. 2 (Kh. Qumran)" |
BASOR 142 describes a handle found at Samrah, which is near Qumran, but not Qumran proper; the author was adding to Welten's list, which already included Samrah via BASOR 142 |
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