Seal Impression on Jar Handle from Jerusalem

Late 8th or Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE

Belonging to Hannah (?) daughter of Azaryah.

Translated by Nahman Avigad and Benjamin Sass.

Notes

[This impression is one of a small number made from a seal belonging to a woman. The reading of her name is uncertain. Because her seal was stamped on the handle of a jar that probably contained a liquid such as oil or wine, it seems that she was the owner or administrator of an estate where the contents were produced, a rare example of a woman in such a role. See also “Inscription on Papyrus”—Eds.]

Credits

Seal Impression on Jar Handle from Jerusalem, in Nahman Avigad, revised and completed by Benjamin Sass, Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, The Israel Exploration Society, The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997), no. 664, p. 244. Used with permission of the publisher.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.