The Jeroboam Bulla (Ben Gurion University)
The Jeroboam Bulla, purchased from a antiquities merchant, dates from the reign of Jeroboam II, a godless king whose reign witnessed both the expansion of Israel's borders as far north as Hamath on the Orontes in central Syria and also a devastating earthquake, the largest ever recorded along the Dead Sea Transform (2 Kings 14:24; Zachariah 14:5; Amos 3:14, 6:11, 8:8, 9:1). The inscription reads: "Belonging to Shema the minister of Jeroboam."
