EditorialGrain ostracon (potsherd) listing distribution of wheat, beginning with the heading " wheat" followed by a list of names and symbols From Arad, Stratum VII. Israelite Iron Age II. Size 18.5 x 15.5 cm. Inv. R 694.
EditorialArad, Israel, a large, fortified Chalcolitic and Early Bronze Age settlement and a smaller Iron Age city with a contemporary Temple. It was a Royal border fortress during the First Temple Period.
EditorialKudurru, Babylonian, 978-934 BC. It records a legal settle-ment of the title to an estate near the city of Sha-mamitu, ancient Mesopotamia. Nineteen divine symbols protect the document, with a snake on the right. Nabumukin-apli, king of Babylon, and Ar...