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"Yet how precious seems the historical message of these humble jar-handles!"--R.A. Stewart Macalister, 1906
Websites of museums & organizations with LMLK handles that may have them on display (quantity on site at one point in time is listed in parentheses; click here to read some exhibit placards):
- Archaeological Museum of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (a.k.a., The Flagellation Museum), Jerusalem (9)
- Bade Institute, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA (69 from Nasbeh in storage (none on display) including the ultra-rare, G2T complete jar; 2 are on loan to the Semitic Museum)
- Bible+Orient Museum at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (5; H2x, H4C, M2x, M4x, S4L)
- Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem (7)
- British Museum, London (200 total from Lachish; 124 HBRN, 3 MMST, 20 SUKE, 5 ZYF, 48 Cannot Classify; 6 handles & Jar 5400 on display)
- Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise, Jerusalem (1 Z2U from Karmel [el-Khalil])
- Eretz Israel Museum (15; 5 are from Lachish, 1 is from Arad, & 9 are unprovenanced; 2 H4Ls, 1 M2D, 1 S4L, 1 Z4CI & Lachish Jar 8585 [possibly loaned] on display)
- Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem (3)
- Hecht Museum, Haifa (18 handles including a rare Z4L [see Corpus page for more details] plus a restored jar on loan [probably Lachish Jar 8585])
- Horn Archaeological Museum, Michigan (1 Z2D, 1 x2x with Circles)
- Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (34)
- Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University (7 complete jars plus 20 additional handles)
- Israel Antiquities Authority (at least 143: 63 HBRN, 21 MMST, 16 SUKE, 32 ZYF, 2 G2T, 9 cannot classify; 104 2-winged, 39 4-winged)
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem (14 handles total on 11-10-2003 including 4 restored jars from Lachish [10457, 10091, 10074, 10616] plus 5 handles from Ramat Rahel [H4L 944-1, H2U 4063-2, S2DW 4529-1, Z2D 62-40, M2U 3417-1])
- Istanbul Archaeological Museum (8 from Gezer; H2U, H4L, M2U, S2U, S4L [2], Z2U, Z4CI)
- Jewish Museum, New York (14 from Lachish: 10 HBRN, 2 SUKE, 2 cannot classify; 4 2-winged, 10 4-winged)
- Kefar Etzion Museum (1 from Tel Sokoh)
- Living Torah Museum (7 handles loaned by Harvey Herbert along with the only unbroken jar, also RAEL #414 from Lachish, & an H2U)
- Magill Library, Haverford College, Pennsylvania (1 Z2U from Beth Shemesh in storage; 8 plaster casts of impressions on display)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (3 representing HBRN & SUKE from Lachish; 1 of them is an H2U)
- Museum of Anthropology & Archaeology, Cambridge University (42)
- Museum of Archaeology & Biblical History, Albuquerque (4 on display {G2T, H2U, M2U, S2DW}; 6 others to be added {2 more H2U, 2 H4L, 1 x2x, 1 Z2U})
- Museum of Creation & Earth History, California (replica of an M2D from Tell 'Erani; also a nice replica of an YRSLM-star handle)
- New York University (1 reported by Vaughn was transferred to the Jewish Museum [listed above])
- Palestine Exploration Fund (click here for details about all 21 including the first one excavated & published)
- Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (2 H2U on display in the reception area of the Registrar's Office in the Administration Building along with a large painting of an H2U impression; also 1 H2U, 1 S2U, 1 H4C, 1 M2T, 1 M2D on display in the Kelso Bible Lands Museum located on the ground floor of the Administration Building)
- Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem (21)
- Semitic Museum at Harvard University (2 on loan from the Bade Institute; Nasbeh H4L #2827 & M2D #2339)
- Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2: one on loan from Israel Antiquities Authority & one on loan from Jewish Museum, New York)
- Spertus Museum, Chicago (replica of an M2D from Tell 'Erani but displayed as part of a fictitious excavation from Nasbeh)
- University of Leeds (22)
- University of Pennsylvania Museum (82 from Gibeon in storage; 20 from Beth Shemesh in storage; 1 S2DR, 1 Z2D, 1 Z4CI, 1 M4C on display)
- W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (unknown quantity in storage until about 2008)
- Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities at Trinity College Dublin (20)
- West Semitic Research Project of the University of Southern California (1)
- Wohl Museum of Archaeology, Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem--Their website appears to be down: rova-yehudi.org.il (5 total; 2 H2D, 1 M2D, 1 M2T, 1 Z4CI)
- Yeshiva University Museum (1 H2U)
This accounts for at least 850 LMLK handles. If you know of another place with LMLK handles on site, please submit it via E-mail to the address shown in the menu at top-left.
"The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, & all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."--Isaiah 40:5
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