THE M(W)SH STAMP IMPRESSIONS AND THE NEO-BABYLONIAN PERIOD

This article re-examines a class of stamp impressions which has receiv ed relatively little attention since the publication of the first exem plar.1 This is the (sic) (hereafter m[w]sh) group, written in one line of three characters as (sic) (hereafter msh), or in two lines of two characters each as (sic) (mw/sh). Discussion of this stamp type has be en overshadowed by that of the earlier lmlk and the later yh(wd) group s. It is our opinion that the type under discussion probably belongs t o the Neo-Babylonian period.2