Leaves from an Epigrapher's Notebook : Collected Papers in Hebrew and West Semitic Palaeography and Epigraphy

Octavo (11-1/4" x 8-3/4"). xx, 371, (1)pp. Indices. Green cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated with numerous photos and drawings. A near fine copy but one that is ex-library, with minimal library markings (a rubber stamp on title page and on bottom of text block). Contents: Section I, Palaeography: The development of the Jewish scripts -- Scripts of the Dâliyeh (Samaria) Papyri -- Palaeographical dating of the Copper Document -- Palaeography and the date of the Tell Fa?ariyeh bilingual inscription. Section II, Transjordanian epigraphy: A papyrus recording a divine legal decision and the root 'r?q' in Biblical and Near Eastern legal usage -- Ammonite ostraca from Tell Hisban -- Epigraphic notes on the 'Amman Citadel inscription -- Notes on the Ammonite inscription from Tell Siran -- A forgotten seal. Section III, Hebrew inscriptions: The seal of Miqnêyaw, Servant of Yahweh -- Epigraphic notes on Hebrew documents of the eighth-sixth centuries B.C. A new reading of a place name in the Samaria ostraca ; The Murabba??t Papyrus and the letter found near Yabneh-Yam ; The inscribed jar handles from Gibeon -- A literate soldier: Lachish Letter III -- Lachish Letter IV -- An ostracon in literary Hebrew from Horvat 'Uza -- Judaean Stamps -- Inscribed weight from 'Araq el-'Emir -- Hebrew inscriptions from Sardis -- Inscriptions from Tel Sera? -- Philistine ostracon from Ashkelon -- Cave inscriptions from Hirbat Bayt Layy (Khirbet Beit Lei). Section IV, Aramaic texts: The stele dedicated to Melqart by Ben-Hadad of Damascus -- Fragments of the Prayer of Nabonidus -- Aramaic inscription from Daskyleion -- New Aramaic stele from Taym?? -- An Aramaic ostracon of the third century BCE from the excavations in Jerusalem -- Note on a burial inscription from Mount Scopus. Section V, Old Canaanite and Phoenician inscriptions: The arrow of Suwar, retainer of 'Abday -- Inscribed arrowhead of the eleventh century BCE in the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem -- Newly discovered inscribed arrowheads of the eleventh century BCE -- Newly found inscriptions in Old Canaanite and Early Phoenician scripts -- A Phoenician inscription from Idalion: some old and new inscriptions relating to child sacrifice -- The Phoenician inscription from Brazil: a nineteenth-century forgery -- An interpretation of the Nora Stone -- Phoenicians in the West: the early epigraphic evidence -- The oldest Phoenician inscription from Sardinia: the fragmentary stele from Nora -- Phoenician incantations on a plaque of the seventh century BCE from Arslan Tash in Upper Syria -- A second Phoenician incantation text from Arslan Tash -- The Old Phoenician inscription from Spain dedicated to Hurrian Astarte -- The pronominal suffixes of the third person singular in Phoenician -- An ostracon in Greek bearing the names of the gates of Idalion -- A newly published inscription of the Persian Age from Byblos -- Jar Inscriptions from Shiqmona -- Two offering dishes with Phoenician inscriptions from the Sanctuary of 'Arad -- An Old Canaanite inscription recently found at Lachish -- An inscribed jar handle from Raddana -- An archaic inscribed seal from the Valley of Aijalon (Soreq) -- Inscribed arrowheads from the period of the Judges -- Evolution of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet -- A Ugaritic abecedary and the origins of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet -- The origin and early evolution of the alphabet -- Early alphabetic scripts -- Alphabets and pots: reflections on typological method in the dating of human artifacts -- Some problems in Old Hebrew orthography with special attention to the third person masculine singular suffix on plural nouns [-âw]. A collection of previously published essays, presented to Frank Moore Cross by his colleagues on the occasion of his retirement--Preface, page xi./ Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Volume 51 of the "Harvard Semitic Museum Publication -- Harvard Semitic Studies.".…