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A variety of what turns out to be clay idols has also been discovered at the site. According to Sapir and Ben-Ari, “Some of the figures are designed in the type of women, riders or animals. These figures are interpreted as products used in paganism and idolatry, a phenomenon that, according to the Bible, was widespread. In the kingdom of Judah.
Aleven, although not all citizens could have participated in the cult of idols, taxes were insured, as illustrated through LMLK handles and other archaeological evidence. According to archaeologists’ findings, taxes on agricultural products such as wine and olive oil were collected in an orderly manner.
“The once ruled pmasses and giant olive orchards and vineyards that included agricultural advertising services, such as pressures for winemaking,” archaeologists said.
Royal LMLK concentrated in pots in prints were discovered excavations applicable with the Kingdom of Judah, the greatest best friend of Jerusalem, the largest. Several pots stamped with LMLK were discovered in Lakish, in the foothills of Judea. So far about two dozen footprint bureaucracies have been discovered, even though they all tend to be stamped with a two-flanked solar disk (as in the case of Arnona) or four wings.
The old LMLK inscription in Hebrew appears regularly on the solar disc; When it comes to impressions of Arnona and also some of those discovered during excavations elsewhere, under the solar disk is recorded one of the four cities of the kingdom of Judah: Hebron, Ziph, Socho or Mmst.
According to Sapir and Ben-Ari, Hebron, Ziph and Socho are well known with the ancient known cities of Judea in the Hebron Hs region. “However, Mmst’s identity is highly controversial.”
An article from Tel Aviv University in 2011, “Handles of stamped and incised bottles with Judahita: a device to study the hitale at the end of Judah’s monarchy,” explains that stamped handles are a notorious phenomenon of the afterlife due to the Judah Iron Age. “Excavations and research in this region have produced more than 2000 mangoes of stamped or sub incisor jars dating from the very short time from the late 8th century to the destruction of the 6th century kingdom BC.
Also included in the impressions of Arnona and other excavations are the names of senior officials and wealthy Americans of the Kingdom of Judah: Naham Abdi, Naham Hatzlihu, Meshalem Elnatan, Zafan Abmetz, Shaneah Azaria, Shalem Acha and Shivna Shachar.
“These names appear on the handles of garage jars in varied places in the kingdom of Judah and confirm the elite position of those names that are unpublished in the jars,” archaeologists said. It is observed that it was senior officials who were at an explicit rate of economic zones, or, for example, wealthy Americans at the time, those who owned giant farmland, boosted the economy in their district, and had their own stamps.
According to archaeologists, Arnona’s site dates back to a time when the Bible documents tumultuous turmoil, adding the failure of the Assyrian king Sennacherib’s crusade to defeat Jerusalem in the time of King Ezekiel. Artifacts on the site, adding stamped stamps, show that the maximum tax probably remained uninterrupted in this era.
“It is conceivable that the economic provisions of the executive indicated through the seals are applicable with these events, however, the excavations revealed that the site remained active after the Assyrian conquest,” archaeologists say.
With the destruction of the kingdom of Judah in 586 BC and exile in Babylon, the site was abandoned, the investigators said. However, some time later, “the site was reinstalled and administrative activity resumed. Meanwhile, government activity at the site was hooked to Judea province when he returned to Zion in 538 BC. ruled over the ancient Near East and Central Asia.
The archaeologists’ findings corresponds with the hypothesis presented by the Tel Aviv University article on the jar handles. “The stamped jar handles were part of the Judahite administrative system that was already established when Judah became an Assyrian vassal kingdom and continued to be in use as long as Judah was a vassal kingdom and afterwards a province under the rule of the Babylonian, Persian and Ptolemaic empires.”
However, after this resumption of activity at the arnona administrative site, thousands of years ago, the site’s giant design was covered with a gigantic pile of flint stones to create an artificial hill of 20 meters (6 five five feet) spread over sevenms visual suntil dune with the naked eye. Archaeologists say some other garage facility could be under the stones.
“These artificial stone hills have been known at various sites in Jerusalem and are beyond the phenomenon of the First Temple, and their characteristics aroused the interest and fascism of scholars in Jerusalem by the birth of archaeological studies in the area,” archaeologists said.
“However, the cause of the great effort made to stack them on large acres of apples remains an unsolved archaeological mystery,” they said.