Volume 110 (2023) The Ancient Written Wor(l)d
Text-bearing artifacts are among the most intriguing and exciting finds in the field of archaeology. Whether inscribed on stone or pottery, written in ink on pottery, parchment or papyrus, or set within mosaic floors, words always open a window onto the past. This volume addresses the theme of writing in the ancient world, from the Iron Age to the Ottoman period. It brings together the final publication of two excavations that revealed significant inscriptions from the Byzantine period along with research articles presenting newly discovered textual objects, including new understandings of previously studied texts.
Front Matter & Editorial
The Editorial Board
A New Assemblage of ‘Private’ Stamped Jar Handles from the Mordot Arnona Excavations, Jerusalem
Neria Sapir, Nathan Ben-Ari, Ido Koch, and Oded Lipschits
From Nasas to Semakhyahu: Two New Engraved Inscriptions from Iron Age Moẓa
Marion Sindel and Haggai Misgav
Evidence of an Edomite Hebrew Scribal Cooperation from Tel Malhׅata: One Ostracon–Two Scripts–Three Scribes?
Stefan Jakob Wimmer
An Aramaic-Inscribed Cultic Object from Tulûl Mas‘ud, Elyakhin
Rafael Y. Lewis, Nir Finkelstein, Rona S. Avissar Lewis, Esther Eshel, Yuval Baruch, Yonah Maor, Tsadok Tsach, and Oren Tal
Sidonians at Marisa (Maresha)
Dalit Regev
A Second Temple Period Inscription on a Stone Ossuary Lid from the City of David, Jerusalem
Esther Eshel and Nahshon Szanton
Not a “Signet Ring” of Pontius Pilatus
Werner Eck and Avner Ecker
Analyzing the Organic and Mineral Composition of Inkwell Residues as Preparation for Characterizing the Ink of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Ilit Cohen Ofri, Yotam Asscher, Yonah Maor, Roi Porat, Beatriz Riestra, and Pnina Shor
A Nabataean Inscription near ‘Avedat
Ohad Abudraham and Alexander Wiegmann
A Milestone Without a Road: A Distance Marker below an Arch of the High Aqueduct to Caesarea
Avner Ecker, Yotam Tepper, and Avshalom Karasik
A Boundary Stone from Kafr NafaḤ and the Preservation of Ancient Place Names in the Northern and Central Golan Heights
Danny Syon and Chaim Ben David
A Bilingual Greek-Georgian Inscription from Mount Zion, Jerusalem, and the Location of the “Monastery of the Iberians”
Michael Chernin
A Greek Inscribed Early Islamic-Period Oil Lamp from Jerusalem
Leah Di Segni, Benyamin Storchan, and Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah
An Abbasid-Period Stone Mold with an Engraved Kufic Arabic Inscription from the Giv‘ati Parking Lot excavations, Jerusalem
Michael Chernin, Oscar Bejarano, Yuval Gadot, and Yiftah Shalev
A Terracotta Pen-and-Inkwell Case from Jerusalem
Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, Peter Gendelman, Ortal Chalaf, and Anastasia Shapiro
A Unique Crusader-Period Lead Seal from the Old City of Jerusalem
Robert Kool and Annette Landes-Nagar
French Inscriptions in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: From the Written Word to the Museum
Estelle Ingrand-Varenne
A Medieval Book Fitting(?) from the ‘Atlit Castle
Vardit Shotten-Hallel and Dana Ashkenazi
Christian Graffiti on a Reused Lintel from Mamluk-Period Ramla: A Glimpse from the East into Western Medieval Society
Clément Dussart
Fifteenth to Seventeenth-Century CE Hebrew Epitaphs from the Jewish Cemetery at Ẓefat (Safed)
Yosef Stepansky
A Greek Inscription from the Villa at Herẓliyya Bet
Leah Di Segni
A Byzantine-Period Monastery at Ḥura
Daniel Varga and Rina Talgam
The Glass Finds from the Monastery at Ḥura
Tamar Winter
