LMLK Jar Room of Timnah (Bldg. 737)

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Photos are from "Qedem:  Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology 37" by Amihai Mazar, distributed by The Israel Exploration Society. Square J-31, looking north.  Floor 737 (Stratum 3) with fragments of LMLK jars in situ covered by flagstone floor 736 (Stratum 2) (1979): Square J-31, looking east.  Human remains (note--the only ones ever found with LMLK jars) & LMLK jar fragments in situ (1981). "The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland & of the South of Judah, & had taken . . . Timnah with its villages . . . & they dwelt there.  For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had encouraged moral decline in Judah & had been continually unfaithful to the LORD."--2Chronicles 28:18-19

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