RARE Citing "ALMIGHT" Ancient Levantine Judaea Hebrew Period Bronze Inscribed For Sale

Ancient Levantine / Ancient Hebrew Period Bronze Inscribed Signet Ring (US Size 6)

Authenticity & Guarantee

• Provenance: Ex-private European collection, legally acquired from international sales; Syro-Palestinian / Levantine Iron Age sphere.

Item Specifications

• Object: Cast Bronze Signet Ring / Intaglio Inscribed Seal Ring

• Culture / Period: Ancient Levant (Iron Age II / Israelite & Phoenician Sphere)

• Date Range: Circa 1000 BC – 800 BC (10th–8th Century BC)

• Ring Size: US Size 6 (Internal diameter approx. 16.5 mm; fully wearable)

• Material: Solid Cast Bronze (Copper Alloy)

• Bezel Matrix & Epigraphy: Pointed vesica/lozenge-shaped bezel plate featuring deeply incised archaic Palaeo-Hebrew/Phoenician letterform monograms (Shin / Tav cipher) integrated into a geometric protective matrix

• Condition: Outstanding, structural archaeological state. Intact wearable hoop, sharp intaglio incisions on the matrix, coated in a thick, authentic light-tan desert earth encrustation over a solid green bronze core.

Epigraphic Reading & Mystical Context

The Matrix Design & Epigraphic Reading

• Script Type: Archaic Northwest Semitic / Early Palaeo-Hebrew (Ktav Ivri).

• Identified Epigraphic Glyph: Monogram combining Shin (𐤔) at the upper vertex with Taw (𐤯) and Gimel (𐤂) across the central fold.

• Translation / Esoteric Meaning: An acrostic invocation (Notarikon). The prominent Shin represents שַׁדַּי (Shaddai — "The Almighty"), combined with Taw (תָּו — "Mark of Divine Protection"). In ancient Levantine mystical and apotropaic tradition, wearing a monogram ring featuring abbreviated divine attributes served as a protective talisman (Segulah) to safeguard the wearer against harm, disease, and the evil eye while serving as an administrative signature seal.

Bronze Age to Iron Age Levantine Glyptics

Small bronze signet rings featuring pointed oval bezels engraved with secret monograms and divine abbreviations were worn across Judea, Samaria, and Phoenicia (Ref: Avigad & Sass, Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1997; Naveh, Early History of the Alphabet, Magnes Press, 1987). The desert-sand encrustation adhering to the deeply cut grooves is characteristic of authentic Iron Age burial deposits from the arid Judean region.

Typological Analysis & Comparable Museum Accession Parallels

Craftsmanship & Construction

Lost-wax cast bronze with hand-chiseled intaglio cuts across the bezel plate. The hoop expands gradually toward the shoulders, supporting the raised vesica matrix.

Comparable Archaeological Examples & Museum Accession Numbers

• Israel Antiquities Authority / Israel Museum (IAA Inv. 1978-522): Iron Age II bronze signet ring with inscribed West Semitic monogram seal face.

• British Museum (Accession No. 1888,0208.12): Levantine bronze signet ring with incised archaic script symbols.

• Ashmolean Museum (Accession No. AN1933.1198): Early 1st millennium BC West Semitic bronze seal ring.

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