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Description: | Lead kosher seal. It has two discs connected by a rod which is circular in cross-section and which has been bent, presumably to secure the seal onto the food. One disc is 1.5 mm thick and circular, 15 mm in diameter, and has a relief Hebrew inscription on both faces consisting of a ring of seven letters around a central letter. The seven-letter ring appears identical on both faces but the central letter appears to be different. The other disc is 3 mm thick and oval, 10 mm across and 13 mm long with its far end cut straight across. Just inside the straight edge is what appears to be part of a curving relief border, and it appears that a larger circular stamp has been used on a too-small disc. There are some possible incomplete letters here, but they cannot be read. The inner face of this disc is different; it has Hebrew lettering in two lines running between the rod and the straight edge. The bent connecting rod, although fragile, was straightened with the finder's permission in order to record the inner faces; during this process it broke. The inscription should give the name of the Chief Rabbi in office at the time the seal was issued, which would narrow down the date. These seals were fixed to kosher foods and their distribution may help to reconstruct Jewish picnicking or rubbish-dumping activity. At the moment the Suffolk examples appear to cluster south of Ipswich.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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