By analyzing the content imprinted on these clay seals and the clay sources of the different seals, we are able to make educated guesses about what life was like for the family that owned these seals, what life was like in Maresha, and what life was like in the world in the 2nd century BCE.

 

Here you will find summaries of research papers the SLiM team produced to get a general understanding of our discoveries. If you'd like to read the whole article, you may require institutional login or a subscription. 

Hellenistic Seal Impressions and the Social History of their Owners

Annual Conference, Classical Association of Canada, Laval 2024

Dr. Chrubasik discusses what Hellenistic seal impressions can reveal about the lives of their owners!

Archive Discovered Under Maresha

BAS Library, Winter 2020

Read about the surprising discovery of the seals in an article by Drs. Ariel and Stern!

Books by SLiM Team Members

Chrubasik, B. (2016), Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire: The Men who would be King, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Chrubasik, B. and D. King (eds.) (2017), Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean: 400 BCE-250 CE, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Stern, I. (2019a), Excavation at Maresha Subterranean Complex 169: Final Report, Seasons 2000–2016, Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology: Jerusalem.

 

Stevens, K. (2019), Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

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GrimDark History Podcast with Boris Chrubasik

'Maccabean Revolt - Identity Politics in the Hasmonean Court', GrimDark History Podcast.