The study of the yehud stamp impressions, which appear on the handles or bodies of store jars, has persisted for over a century, beginning with the discovery of the first of these impressions at Gezer in 1904. Nevertheless, until the pioneering work of Stern in 1973, who cataloged, classified, and discussed the stamp impressions known up to 1970, discovery and publication of new stamp impressions were scattered, and analysis was cursory at best. Furthermore, a gap in research has persisted since then.Now, Oded Lipschits and David Vanderhooft are pleased to present a comprehensive catalog (through the winter of 2008–9) of published and unpublished yehud stamp impressions, with digital photographs and complete archaeological and publication data for each impression. This long-overdue resource provides a secure foundation for general reflection on the whole corpus and illuminates more-narrow fields such as stratigraphy, paleography, administration, historical geography, and Persian-period economic developments within Yehud. The catalog clarifies what is nebulous apart from a complete corpus, matters such as distribution, petrographic analysis of the clay, new readings of the seal legends, use of the toponym yehud, and significance of the title phwa. The scope of this catalog renders it a worthwhile tool for all future study of these invaluable artifacts and the period of history that produced them.
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AcknowledgmentsPrefaceA. Introduction1. History of Researcha. The Early Phase of Research: First Discoveries and First Hypothesesb. The Middle Phase of Research: The Main Corpus and the Main Points of Agreementc. The Late Phase of Research: Expanded Corpus Refined Conclusions, Improved Typology2. The Need for New Research3. Persian and Hellenistic Stamp Impressions Not Included in the Corpus4. The yehud Stamp Impressions: Basic Facts on Numbers and SitesB. Geopolitical and Archaeological Considerations1. Geopolitical Considerations2. Archaeological Considerations3. Petrography of the yehud Jar Stamp ImpressionsC. The Paleographical Framework for the yehud Stamp Impressions1. Chronological Framework2. Arrival of Aramaic Script in Yehud3. Outline of the Development of the Script4. The Development of the Lapidary Script and the Place of yehud Stamp Impressions in the Sequence5. SummaryD. The Toponym Yehud and the Title pḥwʾ1. The Toponym Yehud2. The Title pḥwʾE. The Early Types1. Introduction to the Early Types2. Type 1: לאחיב פחוא “Belonging to ʾAḥîab, the Governor”3. Type 2: יהוד | אוריו “Yehûd ʾÛrīyaw”4. Type 3: יהוד | מלכיו “Yehûd Malkiyaw”5. Type 4: יהוד | חננה “Yehûd Ḥananah”6. Types 2–4: Summary Discussion7. Type 5: יה | וד “Yehûd”8. Type 6יהוד Yehûd”9. Type 7: יהוד יהועזר “Yehûd, Yehôʿezer, the governor”10. Type 8: ?????? ? ???? “Belonging to ?anûnah, Yehûd”11. Type 9: יאזנ בר ישב ׀ יהוד “Yaʾazan, son of Yašub, Yehûd”12. Type 10: ליהעזר “Belonging to Yehoʾezer”13. Type 11: גדליה “Gedalyah”14. Type 12: יהוד פחוא “Yehûd Paḥwaʾ”15. Summary of the Early TypesF. The Middle Types1. Introduction to the Middle Types2. Type 13: יהד “Yehud”3. Type 14: יה “Yeh(ud)”4. Type 15: יה “overlapping”G. The Late Types1. Introduction to the Late Types: Dating the Late Types on Archaeological Grounds2. Type 16: יה-ligature3. Type 17: יהד ט “ṭet + Yehud”4. Summary of the Late TypesH. Summary and SynthesisDistribution of the Early TypesDistribution of the Middle TypesDistribution of the Late TypesFunctionAbbreviations of Periodicals and SeriesBibliographyIndexesIndex of ToponymsIndex of Authors
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ISBN
9781575061832
Publisert
2011-06-30
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Eisenbrauns
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1950 gr
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254 mm
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178 mm
Dybde
64 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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816