Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Ages

Jonathan N Tubb

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781315423036
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: Social Sciences

A collection of key articles on Syro-Palestinian archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages compiled in honor of archaeologist Olga Tufnell, excavator of the biblical city of Lachish, including contributions by Amiran, Callaway, Dever, Stager, and Ussishkin.

ANOTHER PALESTINIAN INSCRIBED ARROWHEAD

T. C. Mitchell

The inscribed arrowhead in the collections of the British Museum (BM.136753), which forms the subject of this paper, adds one more to a considerable number already known. The first example of this type to be noted was published in 1926 (Guigues, 1926; and Ronzevalle, 1926), and since that time thirteen others have been made available for study. Dr Pierre Bordreuil has recently given a convenient summary of these examples with bibliography (Bordreuil, 1982), assigning Roman numerals to each, in the order of their publication, and reporting five more, as yet unpublished, known to him. At the risk of gratuitous repetition of what has been set out already by him and others, I list the examples here once more, together with the various names by which they have been referred to in previous discussions (see also Fig. 3). For ease of reference I use Arabic rather than Roman numerals, and, having, for my own convenience, noted the references to the most useful illustrations, and to the principal discussions, I include these together with other details, when known, according to the following pattern:

Name	Location
Provenance	Museum Number
Inscription	Length (Blade Length)
Bibliography	Weight

1.	Ruweiseh, Ruw	Louvre
	Ruweiseh, Lebanon	A.0. 18849
	ḥṣ ’d’ / bn ‘ky	8.5 (5.5) cm

Guigues, 1926: 325–328

Ronzevalle, 1926: 329–358, pl. III

Donner and Rollig, 1966–69: no. 20, pl. I

Naveh, 1982: 40

Gibson, 1982: 5, 6

Bordreuil, 187 and n. 1

2.	El-Khadr I, EK1	Palestine Archaeological Museum
	El-Khadr, Palestine	34.2793
	ḥṣ ‘bdlb’t	10.5 (7.7) cm

Milik and Cross, 1954: 5–15, fig. 1, left

Cross and Milik, 1956: 21, 22, fig. 2, J.I.I

Donner and Rollig, 1966–69: no. 21, pl. I

Hestrin, 1973: no. 7

Naveh, 1982: 37, fig. 32.1

Gibson, 1982: 5, 6

Bordreuil, 1982: 189 and n. 2

3.	El-Khadr II, EK2	Private Collection
	El-Khadr, Palestine
	ḥṣ ‘bdlbt	9.3 (6.6) cm

Milik and Cross, 1954: 5–15, fig. 1, centre

Cross and Milik, 1956: 22, fig. 2, J. 1.2

Donner and Rollig, 1966–69: no. 21

Naveh, 1982: 37, fig. 32.II

Gibson, 1982: 5, 6

Bordreuil, 1982: 189 and n. 2

4.	El-Khadr III, EK3	Amman Museum
	El-Khadr, Palestine	J.5137
	ḥṣ ‘bdlb’t	9.2 (6.7) cm

Milik and Cross, 1954: 5–15, fig. 1, right

Cross and Milik, 1956: 22, fig. 2, J. 1.3

Donner and Rollig, 1966–69: no. 21

Naveh: 1982 : 37, fig. 32. III

Gibson: 1982: 5, 6

Bordreuil, 1982: 189 and n. 2

5.	Beq ‘ah, Zakarba‘l, BM2	Beyrouth Museum
	Beqa’, Lebanon	6.6 (3.4) cm
	ḥṣ zkrb / bn bn‘n	9.03 g

Milik, 1956: 3–6, fig. (ḥṣ zkr (b) / bn bn ‘n)

Grelot, 1957: 273–279

Yeivin, 1959: 585–589 (ḥṣ zkrb[‘1] / bn bn ‘n[t])

Milik, 1961: 105–106, no. 2, figs. 1.2; 2.2, pl. I.2 pl. I.2 (ḥṣ zkr {b} / bn bn‘n)

Cross, 1967: 19* and n. 7 2 (ḥṣ zkrb[ ‘1] / bn bn ‘n[t])

Donner and Rollig, 1966–69: no. 22, pl. I (ḥṣ zkr {b} bn bn ‘n)

Naveh, 1982: 39–40, fig. 34 (ḥṣ zkrb[ ‘1] / bn bn ‘n /[t])

Gibson, 1982: 5, 6 (ḥṣ zkrb[‘1] / bn bn ‘n[t])

Starcky, 1982 : 184

Bordreuil, 1982: 189 and n. 3

6.	BM. 1	Beyrouth Museum
		2951

Milik, 1961: 103–105, no. 1, fig. 1.1 (ḥṣ)

Cross, 1967 : 19*-20* (UMUŠ.GAL)

7.	Gerba ‘l, BM3	Beyrouth Museum
	Provenance unknown	5137
	ḥṣ grh‘1 / ṣdny	7.8 (5.0) cm
		11.66 g

Milik, 1961: 106–107, no. 3, figs. 1.3; 2.3, pl. I.3

Cross, 1967: 19*, fig. 3, middle

Naveh, 1982: 39, fig. 33, upper

Gibson, 1982: 5, 6, fig. 1

Starcky, 1982: 184

Bordreuil, 1982: 189, and n. 4

8.	Azarba‘1, BM4	Beyrouth Museum
	Purchased in Damascus	677
	ḥṣ zrb‘1 / bn. ’dnb‘1	11.4 (8.5) cm
		16.79 g:

Milik, 1961: 107, figs. 1.4; 2.4, pl. I.3

Gibson, 1982: 5, 6, fig. 3

Starcky, 1982: 184 (giving length as ‘104 mm’)

Bordreuil, 1982: 189 and n. 4

9.	Rapa’, BM5	Beyrouth Museum
	Provenance unknown
	ḥṣ rp’ / bn yḥš over ḥṣ b‘n(?)/(?) (palimpsest)	11.1 cm
		12.89 g

Martin, 1962 : 175–193, figs. 1, 2, pl. I (ḥṣ kl’ / bn yḥš over ḥṣ bn ‘n / bn yḏrb’1)

Cross, İ967: 20* and n. 84, fig. 3, bottom

(ḥṣ rp’ / bn yḥš over ḥṣ b’n(?)/(?))

Naveh, 1982: 39, fig. 33, bottom

Gibson, 1982 : 5, 6, fig. 2

Starcky, 1982: 184

Bordreuil, 1982: 189 and n. 5

10.		Private Collection
	ḥṣ yt’ / bn zm’	? (7.4) cm

UNESCO, 1980: 31

Bordreuil, 1982:. 189 and n. 6

11.	El-Khadr IV	Private Collection
	El-Khadr, Palestine
	ḥṣ ‘bdl’t	9.4 (6.6) cm

Cross, 1980: 4–6, figs. 3, 4 (ḥṣ ‘bdl>b>’t)

Naveh, 1982: 37, fig. 32.IV

Bordreuil, 1982: 189 and n. 7

12.	El-Khadr V	Private Collection
	El-Khadr, Palestine
	‘bdlt’t / bn‘nt	9.5 (6.2) cm

Cross, 1980: 6–7 : figs. 5, 6, 7

Naveh, 1982: 39, fig. 32.V

Bordreuil, 1982: 189 and n. 7

13.		Beyrouth Museum
	Provenance unknown
	ḥṣ zkrb‘1 / mlk. ’mr	11.3 (7.7) cm

Starcky, 1982: 179–186: figs. 1, 2, 3

14.		Private Collection
	Provenance unknown
	ḥṣ ‘bdny / ’š ‘zb‘1	6.6 (4.9) cm

Bordreuil, 1982: 187–190, fig. 1

15.

Beyrouth Museum

Bordreuil, 1982: 189 and n. 8

16.

Beyrouth Museum

Bordreuil, 1982: 189 and n. 8

17.

Private Collection

Bordreuil, 1982: 189

18.

Private Collection

Bordreuil, 1982: 189

19.

Private Collection

Bordreuil, 1982: 189

20.		British Museum
	Provenance unknown	136753
	ḥṣ ’d‘ / bn b‘l’	9.1 (6.5) cm
		13.6 g

Of these: no. 6 will be omitted, Cross having argued convincingly that the characters are to be read as cuneiform UMUŠ.GAL, r...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Olga Tufnell - A Biography
• A Bibliography of Olga Tufnell up to 1984
• A Suggestion to see the Copper ‘Crowns1 of the Judean Desert Treasure as Drums of Stand-like Altars
• Lachish, Ashkelon and the Camel: a discussion of its use in Southern Palestine
• A New Perspective on the Hill Country Settlement of Canaan in Iron Age I
• A Middle Bronze Age Pottery Boot from Tell Lachish
• A North Syrian Cylinder Seal Style: Evidence of North-South links with 1Ajjul
• Relations between Syria-Palestine and Egypt in the 1Hyksos1 Period
• A Mycenaean Pictorial Krater from Lachish, Level VI
• Chocolate-on-White Ware at Pella
• A Late Cypriote Bronze Age Tomb and its Asiatic Connections
• Another Palestinian Inscribed Arrowhead
• The Imitation of Cypriote Wares in Late Bronze Age Palestine
• A Further Note on the Unique Gold Earring from Tell ed-Duweir (Lachish)
• The Firstfruits of Civilization
• Some Observations on Spearheads in Palestine in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages
• A Selection of Scarabs and Scaraboids
• Levels VII and VI at Tel Lachish and the End of the Late Bronze Age in Canaan
• Reflections on Methodology in Egypto-Semitic Lexicography