jan 1, 1000 BC - Khirbet Summeily Seals

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EXAMINATION OF ANACHRONISMS IN BIBLICAL AND ASSYRIAN CHRONOLOGIES by Gerard Gertoux

...six clay seals from the 10th century BCE unearthed at Khirbet Summeily, an early Iron Age site in southern Israel, suggest that there
was more political complexity in the region at that time than had been previously thought. The very existence of those six bullae (right) strongly supports the idea that Khirbet Summeily was a “governmental installation”
across the transitional Iron Age I/IIA (c. 1000 BCE) landscape. This has been acknowledged by many recent scholars who tend to dismiss any emergence of political complexity occurring prior to the arrival of the Assyrians in the region in the later 8th century BCE.

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