Figures & data
Fig. 1: Copy of the bronze cast of the seal stamp ‘(belonging) to ShemaꜤ servant of Jeroboam’ from Schumacher’s excavation in Megiddo (photo by Michael Magen, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
![Fig. 1: Copy of the bronze cast of the seal stamp ‘(belonging) to ShemaꜤ servant of Jeroboam’ from Schumacher’s excavation in Megiddo (photo by Michael Magen, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem)](/cms/asset/0ad00ec3-d14c-4401-a33d-3e3ae62fc578/ytav_a_2246817_f0001_c.jpg)
Fig. 2: The bulla, ‘(belonging) to ShemaꜤ servant of Jeroboam’; a) face; b) back (photos by Y. Goren)
![Fig. 2: The bulla, ‘(belonging) to ShemaꜤ servant of Jeroboam’; a) face; b) back (photos by Y. Goren)](/cms/asset/dad8c526-8287-4890-8b65-0f6875dc30bf/ytav_a_2246817_f0002_c.jpg)
Fig. 3: a) View of the lower panel under stereomicroscope; b) the reconstructed reading (photo by Y. Goren)
![Fig. 3: a) View of the lower panel under stereomicroscope; b) the reconstructed reading (photo by Y. Goren)](/cms/asset/fc9aed74-f8ce-466c-a3ae-867c64b16c55/ytav_a_2246817_f0003_c.jpg)
Fig. 5: Specimen from the bulla viewed under a petrographic polarising microscope (the black area marks the background); scale: 0.2 mm long; the brown silt includes limestone particles with calcite characteristic of rendzina soil; larger particles are of sand and silt containing limestone (LS), quartz (Q) and olivine (OL)
![Fig. 5: Specimen from the bulla viewed under a petrographic polarising microscope (the black area marks the background); scale: 0.2 mm long; the brown silt includes limestone particles with calcite characteristic of rendzina soil; larger particles are of sand and silt containing limestone (LS), quartz (Q) and olivine (OL)](/cms/asset/2320ed06-e3ba-4cac-911e-284ece322e51/ytav_a_2246817_f0005_c.jpg)