Archaeological Center Monographs

A Note on a Medallion of Antoninus Pius from Neapolis: The Largest Medallion Minted in Palestine

2012-01-19 13:48:17 GMT

During the reign of Antoninius Pius, the adopted son of Hadrian, the massive minting of city coinage in Palestine is represented in Neapolis by a series of coins that includes a medallion which appears to be the largest ever minted in Palestine.

Roman Coins Boast “Judaea Capta”

2010-01-29 19:46:01 GMT

Despite Judea’s minute size within the empire, suppression of the Great Jewish Revolt of 66–70 C.E. required a massive Roman military force and generated the largest number of commemorative victory coins. But the Roman mint does not alone account for the large number of Judea Capta coins. The Jews had dared to mint their own.

Tracking Down Shebnayahu, Servant of the King

2009-04-30 07:03:13 GMT

How an antiquities market find solved a 42-year-old excavation puzzle.

A Further Lead Weight of Shimon Bar Kokhba

2007-05-11 16:12:00 GMT

A lead weight bearing the name of Shimon son of Kosba was published by this author in 2001. A further specimin, with a damaged Paleo-Hebrew inscription and a palm branch, is the subject of this article.

Western Area M (The 1998-2000 Seasons) by Israel Finkelstein, David Ussishkin and Robert Deutsch

2006-10-05 11:35:31 GMT

The work at Megiddo’s Area M in 1998-2000 clarified stratigraphic and chronological issues related to Gottlieb Schumacher’s excavation of 1903-05, specifically the date of the Nordburg and Chamber f located to its south.

Two personal Hebrew seals

2004-06-19 18:35:00 GMT

Two personal Hebrew seals of exceptional quality and interest – one of red carnelian, the other of white and brown banded agate – have recently surfaced on the Israel antiquities market.

The Personal Seal and a Bulla of ‘Kushi, son of Toba’’

2003-06-12 11:39:00 GMT

The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum houses one of the world’s most important collections of West Semitic personal seals. The collection includes 140 different seals, impressions on jar handles, all recently published in a handsome catalog. Of special interest is seal no. 44 ‘Belonging to Kushi, son of Toba’, a Judean Hebrew personal seal made of brown limestone. It has a scaraboid shape and is perforated lengthwise.

Lasting Impressions: New bullae reveal Egyptian-style emblems on Judah’s royal seals

2002-07-11 14:57:00 GMT

Yigael Yadin (1917-1984), one of Israel’s pre-eminent archaeologists, asserted that the l’melekh stamps represent royal emblems. Some scholars have doubted this, but these bullae end the debate and prove Yadin correct. The article is the cover story of the July/August 2002 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review.

A Lead Weight of Hadrian: The Prototype for the Bar Kokhba Weights

2002-06-12 17:57:00 GMT

The monumental numismatic work, The Coinage of the Bar Kokhba War, written by my teacher, the late Dr. Leo Mildenberg, is to date the most important and complete corpus on the subject. I am therefore pleased to offer this modest contribution regarding the metrology of the Bar Kokhba weight standards.

A Lead Weight of Shimon Bar Kokhba

2001-11-11 14:39:00 GMT

This is the fourth lead weight belonging to the Bar Kokhba administration that has been recorded to date. While the three previously published weights bear Hebrew inscriptions in square Jewish script, the weight under discussion is unique regarding its palaeo-Hebrew script.