Abstract
This article presents a single seal impression on a jar handle recovered in 2011 from the so-called ‘Babylonian-Persian pit’ at Ramat Raḥel. The seal was incised in the positive and the impression reads, in reverse, yhwd / gdlyh, ‘Yĕhûd Gĕdalyāh’, showing that it clearly belongs in the Yehud stamp impression corpus. It displays similarities to type 11 impressions, which were also incised in the positive, and read, in two lines, gdlyh. Without making a definitive identification of the individual named in the two different seal types, we recognize several similarities with the type 11 stamp impressions (now labeled ‘type 11a’) and label the new seal ‘type 11b’. Palaeographical, archaeological and typological characteristics suggest that the new seal is among the last of the so-called early types and should probably be dated to the latter half of the fifth century BCE.