ICONOGRAPHY:
2,500-year-old seals may show Jews rebuilding Jerusalem after 1st Temple exile. Rare discoveries in City of David confirm that after Babylonian destruction of 586 BCE, city was slowly resettled in Persian era, with a revived bureaucracy, as told in the Bible (Amanda Borschel-Dan, Times of Israel).
I posted on the discovery of these two seal fragments
here. This article explores their possible implications in greater depth.
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