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== Discovery sites == [[File:Lmlk sites map.gif|thumb|200px|LMLK discovery sites, {{As of|2008|February|lc=y}}]] Though most of these stamped jar handles have been found in the territory of the [[Kingdom of Judah]] (71 sites in the land allotted to [[Tribe of Judah|Judah]], [[Tribe of Benjamin|Benjamin]], and [[Tribe of Simeon|Simeon]]), some have also been found in the territory of the [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|Kingdom of Israel]] (four sites in the northwest region).<ref>{{Cite web |title=LMLK Seals |url=https://www.antiquities.org.il/t/item_en.aspx?indicator=153&shalemid=702&CurrentPageKey=23_1 |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=www.antiquities.org.il}}</ref> Over 2,000 stamped jar handles have been found. The 20 sites where the most specimens have been found are:<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Garfinkel|first1=Yosef|title=In the Footsteps of King David|last2=Ganor|first2=Saar|last3=Hasel|first3=Michael|publisher=Thames and Hudson|year=2018|isbn=978-0-500-05201-3|editor-last=Meiron|editor-first=Eyal|location=United Kingdom|pages=174}}</ref> *[[Khirbet Qeiyafa]] β 693 *[[Tel Lachish]] β 415 *[[Jerusalem]] β 281 *[[Ramat Rachel]] β 163 *[[Arnona|Mordot Arnona]] (southern Jerusalem) β 124<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sapir |first1=Neria |last2=Ben-Ari |first2=Nathan |last3=Koch |first3=Ido |last4=Lipschits |first4=Oded |title=A New Assemblage of 'Private' Stamped Jar Handles from the Mordot Arnona Excavations, Jerusalem |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27204896.pdf |journal='Atiqot |date=2023 |volume=110 |pages=8, 19 |jstor=27204896 }}</ref> *[[Gibeon (ancient city)|Gibeon]] β 92 *[[Mizpah in Benjamin|Mizpah]] β 88 *[[Tel Beit Shemesh|Beth Shemesh]] β 71 *[[Moresheth-Gath]] β 39 *[[Gezer]] β 37 *[[Khirbet el-Burj]] (northwestern Jerusalem) β 24 *[[Maresha]] β 19 *[[Azekah]] β 18 *[[Timnah]] β15 *[[Gibeah]] β 14 *[[Tel Erani]] β 13 *[[Hebron]] β 13 *[[Sokho]] (Khirbet Abbad NW of Hebron, not the Sokho SW of Hebron) β 13 *[[Beth-zur|Beth Tzur]] β 11 *[[Arad, Israel|Arad]] β 9
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