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1.     Deutsch, Robert.  Biblical Period Hebrew Bullae.  The Josef 
Chaim Kaufman Collection.  Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publication, 
2003.  $125
      First edition.  Illustrated with hundreds of photos and drawings.  
4to, hardcover, orange cloth in dustjacket.  453 pp.  A fine copy.
      The catalogue of an amazing collection of 516 bullae (all Hebrew 
except two) impressed with 421 different seals and with 95 duplicates.  
Includes an onomasticon, index of names, and index of iconography.

2.     Deutsch, Robert.  Messages from the Past.  Hebrew Bullae from 
the Time of Isaiah Through the Destruction of the First Temple.  Tel 
Aviv: Archaeological Center Publications, 1999.  $50
      First edition.  Illustrated throughout with black and white photos 
and drawings.  4to, hardcover, green cloth gilt, in dustjacket.  205 
pp.  A fine copy.
A study of the Hebrew epigraphic evidence from Hebrew seal-impressions 
(bullae) from the 8th through the beginning of the 6th centur B.C.E. 
from Judah.

3.     Deutsch, Robert, and Andre Lemaire.  The Adoniram Collection of 
West Semitic Inscriptions.  Geneva: Archaeological Center, 2003.  $30
      First edition.  With photos and black and white drawings 
throughout.  Small 4to, hardcover, green cloth gilt, no dustjacket.  47 
pp.  4 leaves have been somewhat damaged (probably before binding) 
causing a large closed tear, affecting the substance of several words 
but not the sense; otherwise a fine copy.
The collection included 29 inscribed items--2 bronze arrowheads, 22 
stone seals, 2 gold pendants, and 3 bronze weights--covering a period 
of seven hundred years, from the 11th century through the 5th century 
B.C.E.

4.     Deutsch, Robert, and Michael Heltzer.  West Semitic Epigraphic 
News of the 1st Millennium BCE.  With a contribution by Gabriel Barkay. 
  Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publication, 1999.  $40
      First edition.  Illustrated with black and white photos and 
drawings.  8vo, hardcover, green cloth in dustjacket.  96 pp.  A fine 
copy.
In this and several other books, Deutsch has tried to record examples 
of West Semitic epigraphic material of unknownn provenance, compiled 
from private collections.  This volume includes a Phoenician arrowhead, 
two inscribed Canaanite arrowheads, an update list of inscribed 
Phoenician bronze arrrowheads, an inscribed Phoenician krater, the 
upper part of a Hebrew-inscribed decanter, two Hebrew ostraca, nineteen 
Hebrew seals including twelve bone seals, an Ammonite royal seal, a 
Moabite seal, twelve Hebrew bullae including two fiscal bullae, an 
Aramaic bulla, and a storage jar-handle with two Hebreww personal seal 
impressions..

5.     Deutsch, Robert, and Michael Heltzer.  Windows to the Past.  Tel 
Aviv: Archaeological Center Publication, 1997.  $40
      First edition.  Illustrated with black and white photos and 
drawings throughout.  8vo, hardcover, blue cloth in dustjacket.  93 pp. 
  A fine copy.
In this and several other books, Deutsch has tried to record examples 
of West Semitic epigraphic material of unknownn provenance, compiled 
from private collections.  This volume includes a description of five 
inscribed arrowheads, fifteen Hebrew seal impressions on bullae, 
fifteen private seals (Israelite, Judean, Ammonite, Moabite, 
Phoenician, and Aramaic), an inscribed Judean storage jar, an inscribed 
Judean measurement juglet, an inscribed Judean storage jar handle, a 
Hebrew seal impression on a jar handle, an Aramaic seal impression on a 
body sherd, and four Judean weights.

6     Herr, Larry G.  The Scripts of Ancient Northwest Semitic Seals.  
Missoula, MT: Scolars Press for the Harvard Semitic Museum, 1978.  $30
      First printing, number 18 in the Harvard Semitic Monograph Series, 
edited by Frank Moore Cross, Jr.  Illustrated with black and white 
sketch drawings.    8vo, hardcover, original blue cloth gilt, no 
dustjacket.  xv, 225 pp.  Spine and edges of the binding a little 
faded, otherwise a very good copy.
A revised version of Herr's doctoral dissertation, which was an attempt 
to organize the vast array of published information regarding hundreds 
of Iron Age inscribed seals collected over the past century.  The 
author restricted himself to seals that had been published with 
accompanying photographs; using tracings of those photographs, he 
analyzed those with known provenance, from which he was able to group 
them according to national tradition.  This information allowed him to 
further group and date those seals with incomplete provenance.

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