Archaeology > Artifacts

Coffins and Burial Sites

• Mesopotamian-Style Ceramic ‘Bathtub’ Coffins from Tell en-Nasbeh - by Jeffrey Zorn, Tel Aviv 20 (1993) 216–224

Coins

• Jerusalem through Coins - presents a history of the Jews from 539 BCE to 135 CE, illustrated by coins

Cuneiform Inscriptions

• Cyrus Cylinder - description, text, and translation
• USCARC 6631 - a cuneiform tablet bearing a business contract; basic information and photograph

Forgeries

• One Man's Forgery Is Another Man's Antiquity - by L. Alexander Wolfe on Bible and Interpretation

Ketef Hinnom Amulets

• The Jehoiachin Code in Scripture’s Priestly Benediction - by P. Kavanagh, Biblica 88.2 (2007) 234–244

Miscellaneous Artifacts and Collections

• Amulettes personelles et domestiques en phénicien et en hébreu (Ier millénaire av. n.è.) et la tradition juive des tefillin et mezuzot - by André Lemaire
• Capture of Lachish by Sennacherib - illustrated clay tablet (no text)
• Egyptian Stelae in Field Museum of Natural History
• The Date of a Bronze Vase from Tell en-Nasbeh - by Jeffrey Zorn, Tel Aviv 23 (1996) 209–212
• The MRZH Tablet - basic information and photograph

Ostraca

• The Heshbon Ostraca - basic information and photographs

Pottery

• A Middle Bronze Age II Type of Pottery Kiln from the Coastal Plain of Israel - by R. Kletter and A. Gorzalczany, Levant 33 (2001); abstract
• The Dating of an Early Iron Age Kiln from Tell al-Nasbah - by Jeffrey Zorn, Levant 30 (1998) 199–202

Scarabs

• Dor and Iron Age Chronology: Scarabs, Ceramic Sequence, and ¹⁴C - by Ayelet Gilboa, Ilan Sharon, and Jeffrey Zorn, Tel Aviv 31 (2004) 32–59

Seals, Stamps, and Bullae

• Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr. Edward T. Newell
• King Hezekiah's Seal Revisited - by Meir Lubetski, Biblical Archaeology Review (July/August 2001)
• Nouveau sceau fiscal phénicien et la Galilée au IVe s. av. J.-C. - by André Lemaire, pp. 188–194 in Shay Bar et al., eds., In the Hill-Country, and in the Shephelah, and in the Arabah (Joshua 12,8): Studies and Researches Presented to Adam Zertal in the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Manasseh Hill-Country Survey (Ariel, 2008)
• The M(W)SH Stamp Impressions and the Neo-Babylonian Period - by Jeffrey Zorn, Israel Exploration Journal (1994) 161–183
• Three Cross-Shaped ‘Tet’ Stamp Inscriptions from Tell en-Nasbeh - by Jeffrey Zorn, Tel Aviv 22 (1995) 98–106

Terra Cotta Figurines

• Das Problem der Deutung von Terrakottafigurinen aus Palästina/Israel - by Rüdiger Schmitt, Biblisches Forum (1/999)

Weights

• The Enigma of the Shekel Weights of the Judean Kingdom - by Yigal Ronen, Biblical Archaeologist 59.2 (1996) 122–125

Book Reviews

• Deutsch, Robert, Biblical Period Hebrew Bullae: The Josef Chaim Kaufman Collection (Archaeological Center Publications, 2003) - reviewed by Walter Aufrecht, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
• Potts, Timothy, Michael Roaf and Diana Stein, eds., Culture through Objects: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of P. R. S. Moorey (Griffith Institute, 2003) - reviewed by Beth Alpert Nakhai, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
• Reade, Julian, Assyrian Sculpture (Harvard Unviersity Press, 1999) - reviewed by Bruce A. Power, Review of Biblical Literature (2000)