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למלך | ממשת
- Hebrew letters on the seals: Mem-Mem-Shin-Tau
- Concordance numbers: none--not used in the Bible
- Scholars have transliterated it as:
- Mameshat (Yeivin, 1961)
- mamsatt (Ginsberg, 1948)
- Mamschat (Galling, 1937)
- Mamshat (Sellers & Albright, 1931)
- Mamshath (Conder, 1901)
- Mamshet (Aharoni, 1960)
- Mamshit (Vilnay, 1960)
- Mamshith (Driver, 1909)
- Memsath (McCown, 1947)
- Memshat (Bliss, 1900)
- Memshath (Macalister, 1905)
- Mimshat (Macalister, 1925)
Click on any of the drawings to see photos of actual impressions!
Type M2D
Type M2T
Type M2U
Type M4C
Type M4L
Refer to the Theories page for speculation on the identification of this inscription. The links below are for pages of Biblical references in case it is ever identified positively with one of them:
"There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them."--2Kings 20:13, Isaiah 39:2
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