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7. Government and Administrative Centers Parallel to Ramat 205
Raḥel in Moab and Ammon 211
8. The Place of Ramat Raḥel in the Administrative System of the 214
Judean Stamped Jars in View of the Findings of the lmlk
Stamp Impressions and the Concentric Circle Incisions
9. The Place of Ramat Raḥel in the Administrative System of the
Judean Stamped Jars in View of the Findings of the Rosette
Stamp Impressions

G. The Biblical Bath and the Volume of the Judahite Storage Jars 216

Introduction 216

1. Initial Attempts to Calculate the Volume of the Biblical bath 221

2. Recent Attempts to Reconstruct the Volume of the

Biblical bath 225

3. Problems with the Postulations according to which the

Administrative System in the Ancient Near East Needed

to Know the Accurate Capacity of the Liquid in the Jars 228

4. The Biblical bath as a lmlk Jar 230

Summary 235

H. The Various Systems of the Stamp Impressions on Jars in Their
Chronological, Historical, and Archaeological Context and Their
Contribution to the Understanding of Judah’s History 237

1. Judah’s Status as an Assyrian Vassal Kingdom as the Historical

Background of the Beginning of the lmlk Stamp Impression

System on Jar Handles 237

2. The lmlk Stamp Impressions and the Concentric Circle Incisions

and Their Significance for Understanding the Economic and

Demographic Crisis after Sennacherib’s Campaign 243

3. The Rosette Stamp Impressions and ‘the Archeology of the

Days of Josiah’ 253

4. The Lion Stamp Impressions and ‘the Myth of the Empty

Land’ 265

5. The yhwd Stamp Impressions, the Development Process of

the Jar Administration in the Persian Period and its Further

Existence in the Hellenistic Period 272