This article offers a Hebrew version of recent papers that reexamined the unique coin type minted in Gamla and adds two new specimens, bringing the total to eleven. The legend on the coin obverse is ...believed now to spell out the name of the town: Gamla, with the addition of the letter ב, implying either that the coin was minted in Gamla, or in year two of the revolt. However, a fresh look at the reverse legend by paleographers, failed to confirm the original reading of “Holy Jerusalem” and a final reading must await new discoveries. There is consensus now that all coins were minted using one obverse die and two reverse dies. The coin blanks were apparently produced locally and the crude and soft dies were recut at some point. The dies were free (as opposed to linked), as indicated by the varying axes of the coins. Assessing the possible time when the coins were minted, the authors agree that this is more likely to have happened during the blockade of Agrippa II and not during the final siege of Vespasian. However, based on the small number of specimens among the 6,500 coins recovered at Gamla, they reject a suggestion that the coins were minted out of economic considerations; rather, they were a propaganda effort by the town leaders.
The article discusses an Assyrianized cylinder seal found in 2007 in Gezer and its affinities to other Assyrian or Assyrianized cylinder seals made of hard semi-precious stones from Israel/Palestine ...and Jordan. By examining the seal in relation to other glyptic items found at Gezer, an effort is made to shed light on the role of Gezer during the period of the Assyrian conquest.
Neue Ausgrabungen und Prospektionen der Landesarchäologie in Israel und Jordanien revolutionieren das herkömmliche Bild von den Anfängen des Islam im Heiligen Land. Nicht mehr durch bravouröse ...Feldzüge kleiner arabischer Reiterheere, sondern durch einen allmählichen Kulturwandel fasste der Glaube des Propheten im 7. und 8. Jh. n. Chr. in den fruchtbaren Landschaften zwischen Mittelmeer und der großen nordwestarabischen Wüste Fuß. Eine besondere Bedeutung kommt in diesem Prozess den dünn besiedelten semiariden Randzonen des Kulturlandes im Negev und in Transjordanien zu: Mit Trockenmauermoscheen, Allah-Inschriften und unantastbaren Einzelflachgräbern erscheinen hier wichtige Elemente der frühislamischen Sachkultur früher und deutlicher als in den dicht besiedelten Kerngebieten beiderseits des Jordans. Damit nähert sich die Archäologie Sichtweisen der modernen Islamwissenschaft, die die Wurzeln des neuen Glaubens in der spätantiken Kultur des östlichen Mittelmeergebietes sucht.
The yršlm stamp impressions are the final link in a long chain of a Judahite- Yehudite-Judean administrative tradition of stamping handles or bodies of storage jars. With its cessation, the system ...that functioned for 600 years under Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Ptolemaic and Seleucid rule from the 8th century BCE through to the establishment of the Hasmonean kingdom, fell into obsolescence. This paper presents an updated corpus of the yršlm stamped jar handles. The authors discuss the following issues: distribution and chronology of the finds; their connection to the late yhwd stamp impressions; the reason why the administrative system in Judea began using iconographic symbols hundreds of years after employing only script on the stamped jar system; the meaning of the pentagram symbol utilized in these seals; and the function of the stamping system in the Hasmonean kingdom in the 2nd century BCE.
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