AGENDA

Replace Home page with searchable PHP version that generates statistics, charts, & maps based on user requests; old Home page will not be deleted, just renamed.
Add Burna to Corpus, Geography, & H2D pages.
Add er-Ras G2T handle photo courtesy of Shimon Gibson
Add er-Ras & Mt. Zion to Plus-Mark Sites Map & Corpus page.
Add Mamilla to Corpus and Geography pages.
Add Moza to Corpus and Geography pages.
Add Rogem Gannim to Corpus & Geography pages (via TA vol. 33 #2 2006).
Reassign Nasbeh x2xR (R24, I, X27) to S2DR page
Add Redondo Beach #69 to S2DR page
Add central icon lines to S4L drawing per Welch #176 & Deutsch #51-450
Refine H2T drawing per Kaufman #775
Process "The Josef Chaim Kaufman Collection Seals, Bullae, Handles: Second Volume" by Deutsch
Process "Ashkelon 1" by Stager & Schloen
Process "Ugarit-Forschungen" vol. 26 by Zwickel
Process "Biblische Welten" vol. 123 by Zwickel & Jeremias
Add alternate translations & additional inscriptions to NonBiblical Accounts
Add handles from Pense Archaeology Museum to Corpus & Displays pages
Process "Epigrafika Vostoka 17" by Heltzer
Add table of partner handles to Matches page
Create page for Handle Measurement statistics
Locate/process about 50 more hard-to-find publications that may have LMLK content
Create overview/reference pages for pre-LMLK-type jars, the Elephantine/Samaria Ostraca, YRSLM & M$E seals, YEUD seals/coins, crown/rosette/star EMLK coins, & stamped Carthaginian jars
Note references to each theory

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HISTORY

November 29, 2013	Removed redundant listing for Ramat Rahel Reg. #1740-3 (IAA #1964-1744) from x2x page.
August 4, 2012	Added S4Ls from Azekah & Gath to Corpus page. Added 2005 Wikipedia entry & 2012 Robert Cargill video to Milestones section of the Publications page.
June 4, 2012	Added link to E. Harding's Lapidarist map on Geography page. Updated 10m (min) values on Postage page.
May 31, 2012	Updated total for Socoh on Corpus page; added "Sochoh" spelling on Geography page.
May 30, 2012	Updated 5m (min) values on Postage page.
May 28, 2012	Added "Our Work in Palestine" & "Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
May 27, 2012	Corrected Beitin typology comment from S4L to M4L on Corpus page. Added links to E. Harding's maps on Geography page. Added "Recent Discoveries" by King (1884) to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
May 24, 2012	Added Bethlehem to Bullae page. Added DI #2 to Bibliography section of Postage page.
April 15, 2012	Added B&I & LRW abbreviations along with Lipschits March 2012 & Grena February & April 2012 to Bibliography section of the Publications page. Added Grena April 2012 to Bibliography section of Postage page.
February 18, 2012	Added H2D photo & corrected Hebron sub-quantities; updated Corpus. Added "Khirbet Qumran et Ain Feshkha II" to G2T page, "Sefer Hebron" to H4L page; added both along with "Orte und Landschaften der Bibel Band 2" to Bibliography section of the Publications page. Added Jurg Eggler to Credits page.
February 13, 2012	Updated general Corpus & Corpus of Lachish handles based on obvious H2U identification of #12-73.271 displayed at the Jewish Museum, New York.
December 31, 2011	Added 11 more specimens to LMLK Bullae page per "Kaufman vol. 2" by Deutsch; also noted Gibeon bulla from Jerusalem project.
December 25, 2011	Updated totals for Jerusalem on Corpus & Circles pages per BAR vol. 38 #1.
November 25, 2011	Updated totals for Ramat Rahel on Corpus page; added TA vol. 38 #1 by Lipschits, Sergi, Koch to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
November 24, 2011	Deleted Khirbet es-Samrah from excavation summary of M2D page. Added TA vol. 38 #2 by Ussishkin to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
November 6, 2011	Added 2Kings 3:4 & Psalm 72:1 to 4428 section of Generic page.
August 13, 2011	Added alternate Erani names of Mensiyeh on Geography & Corpus pages.
August 7, 2011	Added TIP vol. 62 #3 to Bibliography section of Postage page.
June 24, 2011	Added museum paragraph to Jared James Clark's page & handle #5 with pictographic stamp.
March 19, 2011	Corrected photo colors & added notes to Welch handles #45, #90, #91, #109, #190, #191, #192, #193, #194, #195, #196, #197, #198, #199, #200, #201, #202, #203, #204, #205, #206, #207, #208, #209.
March 18, 2011	Corrected photo colors & added notes to Welch handles #155, #156, #157, #158, #159, #160, #161, #162, #163, #164, #165, #166, #167, #168, #170, #171, #172, #173, #174, #175, #176, #177, #178, #179, #180, #181, #182, #183, #185, #186, #187, #188, #189.
March 17, 2011	Corrected photo colors of Welch handles #150, #151, #152, #153, #154.
March 16, 2011	Corrected photo colors & added notes to Welch handle pages #111, #112, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #119, #120, #122, #124, #125, #127, #129, #130, #131, #133, #134, #135, #136, #137, #138, #139, #140, #141, #142, #143, #144, #145, #146, #147, #148.
March 15, 2011	Corrected Welch statistics & updated Corpus totals (1 less G2T & 1 less H2D due to 2nd stamps on same handles #125 & #203).
March 14, 2011	Incremented total pages from 700 to 800 & total handle-photos from 900 to 1,000 on Home page; moved hollow-handle link to Composition section of the Jars page. Transferred both Udd handles to Welch collection #192 & #193; changed impression photos from replicas to real handles on H2U & H4L pages. Added Welch handles #194, #195, #196, #197, #198, #199, #200, #201, #202, #203, #204, #205, #206, #207, #208, #209 to H2D, H2U, H4L, M2T, S4L, Z2D, Z4CI pages. Updated Corpus statistics.
March 13, 2011	Added Welch handles #152, #153, #154, #155, #156, #157, #158, #159, #160, #161, #162, #163, #164, #165, #166, #167, #168, #169, #170, #171, #172, #173, #174, #175, #176, #177, #178, #179, #180, #181, #182, #183, #184, #185, #186, #187, #188, #189, #190, #191 to G2T, H2D, H2U, H4C, H4L, M2D, M2U, S2DR, S2DW, S4L, x2x, Z2U, Z4CI, Z4CY pages. Added parenthetical "Pre-LMLK" reference in "Gitin's SJO System" section to Jars page.
March 12, 2011	Added Welch handles #110, #111, #112, #113, #114, #115, #116, #117, #118, #119, #120, #121, #122, #123, #124, #125, #126, #127, #128, #129, #130, #131, #132, #133, #134, #135, #136, #137, #138, #139, #140, #141, #142, #143, #144, #145, #146, #147, #148, #149, #150, #151 to G2T, H2D, H2U, H4C, H4L, M2D, M2U, M4L, S2DW, S4L, x2x, x4L, Z2D, Z2U, Z4L, Pithoi pages. Updated statistics on Circles page.
March 11, 2011	Replaced photos for Welch handles #45, #90, #91, #109. Updated Corpus totals.
February 22, 2011	Added NEASB vol. 55 by Hudon to Bibliography section of the Publications page. Restored Abhar to Corpus page, which had erroneously been deleted during the 29-OCT-2007 update.
February 21, 2011	Added #81 impression from presently unknown location to the H2D page, which had erroneously been neglected during the 22-OCT-2005 update.
February 20, 2011	Added "Gitin's SJO System" section to Jars page & cross-reference on Rosettes page. Added "lmlk Jar-Form" & "Function of the m(w)sh-Stamped Jars" articles to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
February 19, 2011	Sorted the subcontents of 2.c & 2.d (Periods of Use) by chronological order on Theories page. Added Millard's "Administration in Judah" to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
February 18, 2011	Added van der Veen's reading to LMRA page, & "Arabian Seals" article to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
February 4, 2011	Added "LMLK vol. 1" book notes to Redondo Beach page; added handle-side photo to #9 page. Added "Archaeology Book" & "Archaeology, Stamps and Coins" to Bibliography section of the Publications page; also added latter to Bibliography section of Postage page. Created Archive #8.
February 4, 2011	Made minor corrections about slugs, lowered 3m (min) values from 00109 to 00009, added DI #18, 19, 21 to Bibliography section of Postage page.
January 2, 2011	Created pages for #4, #6, #9, #10 handles from the Herb Stearns collection. Added TA vol. 37 #1 by Lipschits, Sergi, Koch & "Considering..." by Grena to Bibliography section of the Publications page; added clarification statement about the erroneous Website/Lemaire combined system proposed in TA37 to the Typologies page.
December 31, 2010	Created Khirbet Shuweikeh North #1 page & linked to H2D page; clarified redundant Socoh site names on Geography & SUKE pages; updated Corpus page; also added Qeiyafa to map & corpus. Added DigSight Issue 15 to Bibliography section of the Publications page.
December 30, 2010	Created Plus-Mark Sites Map & Corpus page; added links on Plus Mark & Geography pages.
December 24, 2010	Added element names to Element column of 1964 Chemical analysis. Added statement in Overview section about Gibeah Plus mark on Rosette page; also noted additional specimens in Stratification section.
October 16, 2010	Added G2T to chronological-division statistics at bottom of Corpus page; removed defunct Korea link; updated Horn Museum link.
August 28, 2010	Removed "l'malech" & "l'malekh" from Home & Generic pages; modern transliteration spellings with "mal" misrepresent conventional Hebrew grammar, & should not be propagated. Added 2.c.4, 2.d.7, 4.b.11, 5.d.4 to Theories page. Changed title of LMRA page to include 3 other readings (LMRT/LNRA/LNRT). Added "crude" & "elegant" to 4-Cursory & 4-Lapidarist pages, respectively; also both on Typologies page. Linked Z2U & H2D 2-stamp Personals to Umm Tuba & Ramat Rahel pages, respectively. Added chronological-division statistics to bottom of Corpus page. Corrected references to northern/southern Ziphs on Geography page. Added Metropolitan Museum of Art to Placards page.
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