The clay sealing, or bulla, was used in the First Temple period to seal important documents, said Shukron. The new Adoniyahu inscription gives a potential link to a 150-year-old mystery ...

Photograph by Annie Griffiths, Nat Geo Image Collection The clay seal, or bulla, was one of 34 found during Mazar's 2009 Ophel excavations at the base of the southern wall of Jerusalem's Temple ...

JERUSALEM It is the most remarkable find since excavations in the heart of this 3,000-year-old capital of ancient Israel began 140 years ago: a tiny clay seal impression also known as a bulla or ...

A bulla is a piece of clay used to make an impression in wax, sealing a document. The wax was intended to show the integrity of the document once it reached its final destination. The bulla is ...

Jimmy Hardin, associate professor in the MSU Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, said these clay bullae were used to seal official correspondence in much the same way wax seals ...

Perhaps that’s why it has taken 2,700 years for the piece of clay inscribed with King ... It is believed to be the first-ever seal – also referred to as a “bulla” – from an Israeli ...

But the discovery of six official clay seals may finally prove that there was a ruler in the region during the 9th and 10th century BC. Although the bullae don't directly reference David or ...

("Bulla" refers to the clay seal impression.) Archaeologist Eilat Mazar reveals what may be a seal impression of the prophet Isaiah—unveiled in BAR for the first time ever—in honor of ...

But in October, when he pulled a 2,600-year-old seal impression out of the ground ... only a few minutes to read the ancient Hebrew on the clay bulla, which dates to the middle of the seventh ...

Seal impression on clay bulla found at Tel Tsaf. (Tal Rogovski) However, an individual small sealing did feature an impression, composed of two distinct geometrical patterns. The result of the ...