Stamped jars showing cultural shift in late-Iron-Age Judah?

EPIGRAPHY AND ICONOGRAPHY: Pottery shows new culture in biblical Judah after Assyrian conquest. Analyzing stamped jars, Hebrew University archaeologists raised new questions on what happened in the land of Israel after the war with King Sennacherib (Rossella Tercatin, Jerusalem Post).

From the 7th century, the LMLK jars were not produced any more, while by the end of the century and the beginning of the 6th century the rosetta jars appeared in Jerusalem and its surroundings and were used until the Babylonian destruction in 586 BCE.

For more on the LMLK jars, see the links collected here.

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