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<p>[QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3064129, member: 88829"]Somethings not right here, since "Luy" is not Aramaic for Ba'al. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I can see that there is an inscription by the bull in the handstamp, but it is too small for me to read the characters. Could you give us a much larger blowup of that feature so I can make it out? As for the Luy reference, when I see an L--Y consonantal formation in conjunction with a Semitic divine name, it usually parses out to one of the forms for "mighty" or "Most high" as in the Hebrew expression El Elyon. But it is almost always attributive. So before I say more I'd like to see what you are looking at that is being read as "Luy."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3064129, member: 88829"]Somethings not right here, since "Luy" is not Aramaic for Ba'al. I can see that there is an inscription by the bull in the handstamp, but it is too small for me to read the characters. Could you give us a much larger blowup of that feature so I can make it out? As for the Luy reference, when I see an L--Y consonantal formation in conjunction with a Semitic divine name, it usually parses out to one of the forms for "mighty" or "Most high" as in the Hebrew expression El Elyon. But it is almost always attributive. So before I say more I'd like to see what you are looking at that is being read as "Luy."[/QUOTE]
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