Jehu on Obelisk of Shalmaneser III

Your son(s) Gemaryahu and Nehemyahu sent concerning the welfare of Malkiyahu. I bless you to YHWH. And now: Your [ser]vant has inclined his [he]art to what [you] sa[id, and I have written] to my lord…

Mikri (“little one”) Wife of Yehuda Hamon (d. 1642) Yesterday I was playing on the earth, in my husband’s embrace, like a tiny lamb, And an angel came and preyed upon me in his wrath…

This bulla, found near the Western Wall in Jerusalem in the remains of a seventh–sixth-century BCE building, depicts two men facing each other, each raising one hand toward the other with the other…