Below, a drawing of a coin of Gaza according to Langdon of the Persian Period. Yahweh (?) seated on winged wheel.(p. 43. Volume 5. Stephen Herbert Langdon, Mythology of All Races- Semitic. Boston. Archaeological Institute of America. Marshall
Jones Company. 1931)
Below, a different line drawing by another artist of the "same" coin. There is an important difference however regarding the inscription. Langdon's drawing shows that all three letters are in front of the deity's face and above the deity's outstretched arm which holds a bird. The below drawing reveals only two letters above the outstretched arm, the third letter is behind the diety's head. Sukenik (1934) read the three letters not as yhw, but as yhd, meaning Yehud or Judah (for the below drawing cf. figure 8, facing page 543. "The Persian Period." Gosta W. Ahlstrom. The History of Ancient Palestine. Minneapolis. Fortress Press. 1993, 1994).
Below another drawing of the same coin but by a different artist (cf. p. 18. figure 1. "Yahweh, El, Baal and Zeus." Tim Callahan. Secret Origins of the Bible. Altadena, California. Millennium Press. 2002)
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