Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals

by Nahman Avigad, Benjamin Sass (Contributor)

This fully illustrated scholarly handbook is indispensable to anyone concerned with the West Semitic onomasticon and iconography and with the history of the biblical period. Included are Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Ammonite, Moabite, Edomite and Philistine seals, bullae and other seal impressions dated to the 6th–9th centuries BCE. Part One of the Corpus contains a complete documentary, photographic and bibliographical catalogue of West Semitic stamp seals published through 1991 and presents approximately 100 hitherto unpublished seals. Part Two presents an analytical discussion of the epigraphy and onomasticon of the seals.

640 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1997