Israelite Sealings: Life Inhibited by Motion Power Interference 800-587 BCE
For translation methodology see: How to Translate Alphabetic Akkadian Texts
For translation methodology see: How to Translate Alphabetic Akkadian Texts
(May 3, 2023) Droughts separate the archaeological periods in the Levant. States weakened by local droughts were often subject to raids right after the droughts by Mesopotamian empires which were unaffected due to their irrigation. Below is the latest widely accepted chronology proposed by Amihai Mazar in 2014 shown below:
(April 6, 2023)
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(April 2, 2023) Image (double lines) is that of a solid sky-shell without openings bisecting a ring of stars.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
Seal made of red stone 18.4 x 14 x 8.7 mm.
Formerly Altman collection in Paris, present location not reported.
(July 5, 2023) Image is of a 3-layered divine realm or sky-shell.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(April 21, 2023)
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads just like seals 70 and 71:
(April 24, 2023) Image in the lower is meant to represent the filtrate based upon its label. (So perhaps milk from a cow udder)
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(April 2, 2023)
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(May 7, 2023) Su if the full moon god and source of all motion powers.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads just like seals 70 and 71:
(April 21, 2023) Image is of goddess Ayu having 4 wings who edits the life network. She is holding two knives for cutting (blocking) the threads off the network. Above the knives are images of stars indicating motion powers are replacing her cuttings. These motion powers slow or even stop the flow of fertility fluids through the network channel threads.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(April 21, 2023) This is not a sealing but the actual limestone artifact found during the archaeological excavation off En Gedi, Israel. Based on its writing direction and larger size it was not used as a seal but instead was used as some sort of decorative element. The deity Thu is the hermaphrodite connective deity of the motion powers while the full moon god Su is the source power.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(May 8, 2023) Sealing has a ring of stars indicating astrological powers are being discussed.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads just like seals 70 and 71:
(May 4, 2023) This text implies that the fertility-fluids (filtrate) is not flowing through the life network due to emotion magic at the society level. Owls are the divine bird which affects such movement just life eagle-vultures affect the thread/channel connections.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(May 25, 2023)
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(April 21, 2023) Image is of a flower which represents rainfall and fertility during either the spring or fall. The text is blaming a lack of rain on the fertility-fluids being blocked (not being opened).
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(April 24, 2023) Image is of the sun god Hu in a sky-shell channel indicating this text is about life powers. "Howling" is a reference to the howling of wolves indicating bad times. "Cool-place" seems to be an epithet for the astrological powers of the night sky.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(April 3, 2023) The center illustration is of the sky-shell which has its opening filled by the sun indicating it is open. The problem is not from sky-shell blockages.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(April 8, 2023) Image is of a lyre with a flower, mostly likely the red crown anemene which is common in Israel. While lyres were commonly used in temple rituals this flower indicates this lyre was meant for a funeral ritual.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
Bought on the Jerusalem antiquities market in 1974; Haifa, Hecht Museum H-2031. Seal is bronze, 12 x 10 x 5 mm.
(March 29, 2023) Image on the text side is the sky-shell. The other side has an image of two running bowmen.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows but they have to ignore some letters to make this translation:
(March 18, 2023) Fish images came to represent motion powers from a conflation of the Akkadian words ziqu meaning breath, wind, spirit (motion power manifestations) and ziqqatû which means "fish." The /t/ ending in Akkadian is also a feminine word modifier so a spiritual motion power is also a "lady-fish." The full moon god Su is the source of motion powers from the moving night sky.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(April 11, 2023) Fish images came to represent motion powers from a conflation of the Akkadian words ziqu meaning breath, wind, spirit (motion power manifestations) and ziqqatû which means "fish." The /t/ ending in Akkadian is also a feminine word modifier so a spiritual motion power is also a "lady-fish."
(April 2, 2023) Image is of a wading water bird between two palm trees looking backwards. These are positioned on the earth (cross-hatching) having two sky-shell holding posts on the far ends.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(July 5, 2023) Image is an Egyptianized snake headed eagle-vulture crowned with the Egyptian double crown. Eagle vultures are editors of the life network and sakes represent the power of life and death.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(May 7, 2023) Image is of an Egyptianized Hu represented as a winged lion having a hawk head can crowned with the double crown of Egypt. In front of Hu is the Ankh symbol representing life.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads just like seals 70 and 71:
(April 27, 2023)
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
Not Provenanced. Letter assignments by Olmsted (Image from Deutsch 2002)
(March 20, 2023)
This text was translated by Robert Deutsch as:
In English
This is a failed translation because:
(April 7, 2023)
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(April 1, 2023) This text is blaming a drought on the life-priests getting involved with motion causing magic. Normally this magic is the domain of magic crafters.
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows:
(April 6, 2023)
Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows: