The Seal of King Hezekiah

[Music] [Music] [Music] the archaeological excavations we conducted in the ofel area we found a most unique item that is the private seal impression of king khazakaya this is the first time that such an item is found ever in archaeological excavations it this is so tiny it's just one centimeter in dimension we can see very easily the name of king kazakhaya the symbol that he chose to put on his seal impression wins the sand disk with wings and symbol of life on both sides of the wings and of course this is a seal private seal of the king that most likely held by the king and by nobody else and we found it we found it in a royal quarter that means that we get as close as possible tangible as ever to king kazakai himself of course one of the most important figures in the bible king hezekiah knows from assyrian documents of course he is well known from the bible itself and now we get to touch him [Music] so [Music] so when the material comes back from a shifting we we make a list of all the names that we have in the boolean and one of the was this one so we read in the initial reading and the there was a more letter that we didn't understood but we left it for later so after some years when we concluded the first time volume of the publication of the awful excavation we start again and we saw that there is a dot between the letters of the name malchio so it's not the name of mukiyau it's the word melech and yehu and the meaning is yehuda and then we we come back to the letters that had missed and we understood that there was the name of his kia's father ahaz so in the seal that they pressed this bulla there was the letters so this is a really royal bula [Music] you