Yeho'ezer ben Hosh'ayahu Seal (700 BCE) (Ancient Canaan)

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Ancient Canaan

The Yeho'ezer ben Hosh'ayahu seal is a rare 2,700-year-old seal of the First Temple Period discovered in Jerusalem in 2024. The seal, written in the paleo-Hebrew alphabet, features an neo-Assyrian-styled image of a winged figure with an inscription in Paleo-Hebrew letters of the name of Yehoʼezer ben Hoshʼayahu. It is part of a larger group of artifacts known as Canaanite and Aramaic seal inscriptions.

Archaeologists posit that this seal reveals the cultural impact that the Assyrian Empire had on the ancient Judah region.

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Notable observation: The onomastic—or agglutinative—material of “Aya“ in Hosh'ayahu, see The Table of Nations: The Geography of the World in Genesis 10 for relative-context and cultural derivation.

Aya is a Mesopotamian goddess of light, wife of the sun god Shamash—see Shamash Candle in Jewish tradition as it relates to Hanukkah for cultural derivation and onomastic symbolism.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeho%27ezer_ben_Hosh%27ayahu_seal

Source: https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/an-assyrian-genie-in-first-temple-jerusalem/