Late Iron Age Judean Cooking Pots with Impressed Handles: A New Class of Stamped Impressions from the Kingdom of Judah

Via the inestimable Aren Maeir mention of an essay in the Eshel Festschrift-

Shai, I., Ben-Shlomo, D., and Maeir, A. M. 2011. Late Iron Age Judean Cooking Pots with Impressed Handles: A New Class of Stamped Impressions from the Kingdom of Judah. Pp. 225-244 in ‘Go Out and Study the Land’ (Judges 18:2): Archaeological, Historical and Textual Studies in Honor of Hanan Eshel, eds. A. M. Maeir, J. Magness and L. H. Schiffman. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 148. Leiden: Brill.

In this study, we discuss a hitherto unnoticed class of impressed cooking pots from late Iron Age Judah, that along with several other recent studies on similar phenomena (by the authors and others), point to some of the less-known bureaucratic and economic frameworks in this period – and show us how much we still have to learn about a period that is so extensively researched and discussed.