If I did my math right this is from around the end of Bayis Rishon... wow!
Archaeologists Find Stamps with Hebrew Names
(IsraelNN.com) Archaeologists found a stamp bearing the Hebrew name “Refayahu ben Shalem” in Jerusalem on Wednesday. The stamp was found during excavations in the City of David. Archaeologists believe it was created around the year 800 B.C.E.
The excavators found three other stamps as well. The stamps, made of tin, bore Hebrew names and appear to have been used by local authorities to approve merchandise.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/142335
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QUOTE (Pinchas @ Feb 27 2008, 05:51 PM) 
The excavators found three other stamps as well. The stamps, made of tin, bore Hebrew names and appear to have been used by local authorities to approve merchandise.
I hear one of the other three stamps says "כשר לפסח לאוכלי קיטניות“
Nice!
OMG how is this possible!?!?!?!!? they must be fakes, everyone knows that the Balestinians lived there and not the Jews and that the 1st Jews only arrived in 1944
QUOTE (mendelbaum666 @ Feb 28 2008, 04:08 AM)
OMG how is this possible!?!?!?!!? they must be fakes, everyone knows that the Balestinians lived there and not the Jews and that the 1st Jews only arrived in 1944
They misread the inscription. It really said "Rafiq ibn Salem"...
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