January-December, 2003

December 25, 2003	Added first Lamed of S2DR, first Kaf of S2DW, & revised many other letters & pop-up photos on Paleography page.
December 23, 2003	Revised M4L drawing & its Paleography letters. Revised stamp photos of handle #21 from the Redondo Beach collection.
December 12, 2003	Added 1Maccabees verse to HBRN page.
November 28, 2003	Added Crowfoot & Fitzgerald sub-quantities & updated Macalister & Duncan's on Jerusalem page.
November 25, 2003	Revised M2D drawing & all 3 of its Mems on Paleography page. Revised main map (expanded & added several minor sites) on Geography page.
November 22, 2003	Added Down-wings design to King Hezekiah's personal seal page. Revised M2U, S2DW, Z2U, Z4CY drawings. Added Fay from Z2U to Paleography page.
November 19, 2003	Updated details for Hecht Museum & Israel Museum, Jerusalem on Displays page; updated sub-quantities for Hecht Museum on Corpus page.
November 15, 2003	Added "Gezer III: Text" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
November 14, 2003	Added another "Theology, History, & Archaeology..." entry regarding the Ashdod handle to Errata page.
November 11, 2003	Added W. F. Albright Institute to Displays pages. Added "Handbook of Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
November 1, 2003	Added another "Jewish Quarter Excavations" entry regarding the first M2T discovery to Errata page.
October 25, 2003	Added notes regarding Oded Golan to Incised LMLK Oil Jar page.
October 24, 2003	Added Bible+Orient Museum to Corpus & Displays pages.
October 11, 2003	Added "The Archaeology of the Land of Israel" to Errata page.
October 5, 2003	On Jars page, noted that Lachish Jar 5400 might have had a LMLK handle, & revised Tel 'Erani Jar 60-501 to clarify that it has stamps on only 3 of its handles. Added Lachish (S) #7165 to Stratigraphy page.
September 27, 2003	Added Weill sub-quantities to Jerusalem page. Added "Die Konigs-Stempel" to Errata page.
September 25, 2003	Noted 1946 petrographical examination in the introduction to the Chemical Analyses page.
September 23, 2003	Changed all "SWKE" nomenclature to "SUKE".
September 20, 2003	Added Tufnell locus quote on Jar 5461 page from Lachish. Added 1 handle from Ramat Rahel to Corpus total reported by Diringer in BA v12 but not included in subsequent publications. Added "Lachish III (Plates)" to Errata page.
September 14, 2003	Added 8 handles from Beth Shemesh to Corpus totals based on 28 total from recent excavations. Added Albright's 1932 idea regarding King Hezekiah to the Milestones section of the Publications page.
August 27, 2003	Ported website to www.lmlk.com/research from original AT&T URL. Changed all "SWKH" & "ZYP" nomenclature to "SWKE" & ZYF".
August 15, 2003	Added x2U & x4L handles to Lachish page.
August 8, 2003	Corrected mistaken listing of H4L handles (no photos & 1 missing) on Mizpah page & Corpus totals.
August 6, 2003	Corrected mistaken listing of Michael Welch's #2 handle from H4C to Z4CY; also added him to the Credits page & the Milestones section of the Publications page. Added 4 handle photos from Zev Radovan including an H4L excavated from Ekron; updated M2U page, Corpus page, & Seal Type Distribution map for H4L.
July 29, 2003	Created summary page for Arad after correcting a mistaken reference to IEJ vol. 14 #3 that listed an S4L handle as being from En Gedi; also updated Seal Type Distribution maps for it & the H2D; also updated data on Stratigraphy page. Noted white-washed Gibeon #542 in Composition section of Jars page.
July 18, 2003	Created Handle Matching page.
July 14, 2003	Michael Welch revised portions of his commentary on his page (also added a paragraph about kilns & Assyrian axes).
July 13, 2003	Revised M2U & Z4CI drawings. Reclassified Khirbet es-Samrah handle (published in BASOR 142) from M2U to M2D. Revised photos of handles #14, #16 from the Redondo Beach collection; added handles #36, #37, #38, #39.
July 5, 2003	Revised S4L drawing. Revised photos of handles #1, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #9, #15, #17, #18, #19 from the Redondo Beach collection.
July 4, 2003	Revised M4L drawing. Removed redundant S2U photo from "Encyclopedia vol. 3 (Ji-N)". Reclassified 40 seal photos from x2x, x4L, & x4C categories based on recent line drawing revisions & made appropriate changes to Seal Type Distribution maps: Beth Shemesh: 1001, 61-14-1194 Beth Zur: #2 Gibeon: 118-s34, 488-s191, 318-s88, 491-s194, 455-s168, 294-s74, 542-s224, 353-s101, 514-s205 Jerusalem: pef147, #45, #7 Lachish: 570-2, 303-2, 794-1, 10074 Mizpah: r393-i-x5, m1019, r240-i-x1, m2718, m2452, ac15x-i-x44, 998, m730, ae20x-i-x42, m1462 Ramat Rahel: 4212-2, 4194-4 Eretz-Israel vol. 23: #6, #7, #10, #14 Michael Welch collection: #46, #75, #76 presently unknown locations: MVC3436F, 79-364 Noted probable xxx identifications underneath each photo & added xxx seals to excavation site pages. Removed x2x from menu bar & added to x2U category to xxx page. Updated Corpus & Gibeon Pool pages.
June 30, 2003	Added handles #40, #41, #42 from the Redondo Beach collection. Added handle #92 from the Michael Welch collection. Michael Welch revised a paragraph of his commentary on his page (the one regarding his theories about Circles). Created Stamp Interpretation Tricks page.
June 28, 2003	On the Paleography page: added Kaf of G2T; Bet & Resh of H2T; Kaf, Mem, & Shin of S2DR (removed its Hey); Mem of S2DW; first Lamed of Z2D; Kaf of M4C; also revised 13 other letter drawings & changed some of the pop-up reference photos.
June 26, 2003	Reclassified Jericho ID# 42h from S2U to S2DR. Reclassified Mizpah AC16X-I-X45 from Z2T to G2T. Reclassified Mizpah ID# M2915 Q12 X5 & Shiloh's City of David ID# 43 from G2B to x2x.
June 25, 2003	Renamed the x2B page to x2T, revised the G2B page & removed its impression from the Sets page. Revised all seal type drawings; many minor details were corrected/refined based on about 200 additional handles examined since the last drawings were made. Now the drawings are also scaled relative to each other (i.e., the x2T seal ovals are significantly smaller than the x4L ovals) whereas previous drawings were all scaled to the same exact width (i.e., 200 pixels for the large versions & 75 pixels for the small versions). Reclassified JQE 3055-3 from Z4CY to x4C & Ramat Rahel 1683-3 from S2DW to x2x.
June 16, 2003	Added Drag marks & Hole marks to Incisions page. Revised Plus Mark page to include Gibeon handles. Listed Gibeon tri-circle handles & Michael Welch's malformed circles (ID# 91) on Circles page; added field #s to Diameters list.
June 15, 2003	Reclassified Gibeon field # 983 from x2x page to G2T page. Added 6 charts for Corpus classification summaries.
June 14, 2003	Integrated statistics of all the handles excavated from Gibeon that were never described in detail by Pritchard. Reclassified Gibeon field # 530 from x2x page to H2U page. Reclassified Jewish Quarter Excavations Reg. No. 3889-1 from S2DR page to Rigid Wingspan section of the x2x page. Revised G2T, Z2T, Z4CY maps to include Gibeon on Seal Type Distribution page.
June 11, 2003	Revised Beersheba & Rimmon references in the Corpus based on IAA handles.
June 10, 2003	Revised Beth Shemesh Corpus based on IAA quantities possibly being replications of Magill Library plaster casts & Rockefeller Museum handles listed in IEJ vol. 34. Revised H2U, H4C, Z2U, Z4CI maps to include Beth Shemesh on Seal Type Distribution page; revised M4L map to include Gibeon.
June 5, 2003	Added details of 6 Beth Shemesh handles listed in IEJ vol. 34 to the Corpus page. Updated Israel Antiquities Authority quantity & noted total handles at the bottom of the Displays page.
June 3, 2003	Added handles #67-90 from the Michael Welch collection. Added "Royal Functionaries" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
May 30, 2003	Integrated statistics based on firsthand examination of handles excavated from Beth Shemesh. Added photo placeholders to x4L & Z2D pages & made minor changes to Jerusalem Corpus based on Kiriat Menahem. Revised ZYF map to include Beth Shemesh on Seal Type Distribution page. Added "Angelos-Lehrbucher vol. 1" & BAR vol. 29 #3 to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
May 28, 2003	Made minor correction to Beth Shemesh Corpus; subtracted one x4C & added one Z4CI. Added "BASOR Supplement No. 23" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
May 27, 2003	Revised Gibeon Pool page based on new data regarding all Gibeon handles. Made minor corrections to Gibeon Corpus; subtracted one G2T & added one x2x; subtracted one x2x & added one H2U. Added Clermont-Ganneau's H2x to Jerusalem Corpus. Added "Archaeological Researches in Palestine vol. 1" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
May 26, 2003	Removed #518 & added #515, #542, & #1451 handles from Gibeon to Pithos page & noted similarity to GB'N ware near bottom of page. Moved Gibeah 16B-6 from x2x to G2T page; added ware details for 16B-2 & 16B-8 on x2x page, 205 on M2D page, 30-14 on M2T page. Added ware details for all 4 Tell Beit Mirsim impressions on H2U & H4C pages. Revised Corpus statistics based on unpublished handles from Gibeon, Mizpah, Beth Shemesh, & previously unknown ware statistics of handles from Gibeah & Tell Beit Mirsim. Published Arad ID# 115-1 & updated Arad data on Stratigraphy page. Added University of Pennsylvania Museum to Displays page; revised info for Magill Library & Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Added "Hebrew Inscriptions & Stamps from Gibeon" to Errata page. Added Tappy, Bowden-Cooper, White, Titus, Pezatti, & Peterson to Credits page. Created Archive #3.
May 10, 2003	Added "The Age of the Monarchies vol. 4-1", IEJ vol. 40 #4, "Prophets & Markets", RB vol. 9 #4, TA vol. 18 #1 to Bibliography section of the Publications page. Noted Avigad's paleography comment at the bottom of Bullae page.
April 26, 2003	Added 7.b.8 (2-winged circles) to Theories page. Added Eretz-Israel v18 by Mazar & HTR vol. 72 to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
April 7, 2003	Added handles #45-66 from the Michael Welch collection.
April 1-4, 2003	Moved images to larger web host & created new Dotcom page.
March 20, 2003	Revised H4C drawing. Added photos of fingers in handles to Usage Speculation section of Jars page.
March 17, 2003	Revised H4L & Z2D drawings. Revised photos of Redondo Beach #8, #10, #11, #12, #13.
March 14, 2003	Revised H2D & H2T drawings. Added Hets from H2D & H2T, "MLK" from M2D, Kaf from Z2U to Paleography page; corrected broken popup links.
March 13, 2003	Moved Pithoi section from Jars page to its own page. Created summary page for Michael Welch along with detail pages for 44 of his handles, integrated all 44 impressions into their respective seal type pages, & updated the Corpus page; added links to his hollow handle & anachronistic incised inscription on Home page; added a link to his Plus Mark handle on the Plus Mark page. Added "LMLK Seals in the Michael Welch Collection" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
March 8, 2003	Revised main map on Geography page (several of the Shephelah sites were inaccurate); updated all other maps derived from that drawing; corrected MMST Seal Type Distribution map to exclude Tell 'Erani; also noted which 4 sites produced the most of the 4 inscription words (Lachish for HBRN & SUKE; Ramat Rahel for MMST & ZYF). Noted the possibility of Josiah's reign & potters' guild on Rosettes page.
March 6, 2003	Added "Gods, Goddesses, & Images of God" & "Palastinensische Kleinkunst" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
March 1, 2003	Revised H2D, H2U, M4L, Z2T, Z2U, Z4CI drawings. Added Redondo Beach's #34, #35, Baidun's #MVC3436F, #MVC3839F to Corpus & respective impression pages; also created Presently Unknown Location page, which includes 6 impressions formerly in the Chaya collection. Added Horn Archaeological Museum to Displays page. Added Gordon Govier's The Book & the Spade (#883 & 884) radio interview of Andy Vaughn to Milestones & Bibliography sections of the Publications page.
February 22, 2003	Added Redondo Beach's #21, #22, #23, #24, #25, #26, #27, #28, #29, #30, #31, #32, #33 to Corpus & respective impression pages.
February 18, 2003	Added Michael Welch's sub-quantities on Corpus page.
February 17, 2003	Updated Michael Welch's & Redondo Beach's totals on Corpus page.
February 8, 2003	Added 7.e.21 (4 words=4 years) & 7.e.22 (4 words=4 seasons) to Theories page. Modified Hebron sub-quantities on Corpus page & revised HBRN map on Seal Type Distribution maps page. Added ZDPV vol. 118 #2 to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
February 1, 2003	Changed all maps from color to black & white to conserve web space & hasten downloads; removed maps from seal type pages but kept site summaries.
January 31, 2003	Created Seal Type Distribution maps page & added maps to all seal type pages.
January 30, 2003	Created summary pages for Beth Shemesh, Beth Zur, Gezer, Gibeah, Tell Beit Mirsim, Timnah & removed their sub-quantities from Corpus page.
January 26, 2003	Incorporated 3 handles from private collection in Boston. Created summary page for Mizpah (Tell en-Nasbeh) & removed its sub-quantities from Corpus page.
January 25, 2003	Created summary pages for Lachish, Redondo Beach, Harvey Herbert's at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Ramat Rahel, Gibeon & removed their sub-quantities from Corpus page.
January 24, 2003	Added 3.g (circles were a memorial of the angelic massacre), 7.c.5 (scarab=cherub), 7.d.7 (wings symbolize quality of God) to Theories page.
January 18, 2003	Deleted separate row/column for rigid-winged seals on Sets page after noticing similarity between wings & mems on S2DR & M2T seals.
January 7, 2003	Added Ekron sub-quantities to Corpus page. Added "Der Alte Orient vol. 30" & RB vol. 39 #1 to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
January 6, 2003	Noted observations by Bliss & Macalister that all handles were probably produced at the same location on Chemical Analyses page. Added Barkay's Ketef Hinnom, Jerusalem excavations to Corpus page. Added "Retrieving the Past", "Samaria in Ahab's Time", "The Archaeology of Ancient Israel" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
January 5, 2003	Added "The Biblical World vol. 17" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
January 4, 2003	Modified Warren excavation info on PEF Collection, Original Report, & Corpus pages based on PSBA vol. 20 info. Added "Archaeology & the Bible", PSBA vol. 20, PSBA vol. 32 (May 1910), "The Archaeology of Palestine & the Bible" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.

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