Articles

Robert Deutsch, manager of the Archaeological Center, writes articles in the academic fields of archaeology and epigraphy, ie, the study of seals.

The Personal Seal and a Bulla of "Kushi, son of Toba'"
by Robert Deutsch

The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum houses one of the world's most important collections of West Semitic personal seals. The collection includes 140 different seals, impressions on jar handles, all recently published in a handsome catalog. Of special interest is seal no. 44 'Belonging to Kushi, son of Toba', a Judean Hebrew personal seal made of brown limestone. It has a scaraboid shape and is perforated lengthwise.
article #015

A Lead Weight of Hadrian: The Prototype for the Bar Kokhba Weights
by Robert Deutsch
Israel Numismatic Journal
Vol. 14, 2000-2, Pp 125-128

The monumental numismatic work, The Coinage of the Bar Kokhba War, written by my teacher, the late Dr. Leo Mildenberg, is to date the most important and complete corpus on the subject. I am therefore pleased to offer this modest contribution regarding the metrology of the Bar Kokhba weight standards.
article #014

Lasting Impressions by Robert Deutsch Biblical Archaeology Review Volume 28, Number 4, July/August 2002, Pp 42-51, 60-1 Yigael Yadin (1917-1984), one of Israel's pre-eminent archaeologists, asserted that the l'melekh stamps represent royal emblems. Some scholars have doubted this, but these bullae end the debate and prove Yadin correct. The article is the cover story of the July/August 2002 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. article #013

A Lead Weight of Shimon Bar Kokhba
by Robert Deutsch
Israel Exploration Journal
Volume 51, Number 1, 2001, Pp 96-9

Lead weight with inscription
This is the fourth lead weight belonging to the Bar Kokhba administration that has been recorded to date. While the three previously published weights bear Hebrew inscriptions in square Jewish script, the weight under discussion is unique regarding its palaeo-Hebrew script.
article #011

Five Unrecorded 'Yehud' Silver Coins
by Robert Deutsch
Israel Numismatic Journal
#13, 1994-1999, Pp 25-6

One of three silver hemiobols featured in the article
This coin is the first Jewish one featuring... a human ear.
article #010

A 'Babylonian' Grave from Megiddo's Area F
by Robert Deutsch
Megiddo III: The 1992-1996 Seasons
1999

The glazed terracotta bottle from the 'Babylonian' grave
This bottle was found lying at the left side of the skull. It is probably an import from a Babyloinain glazing production centre.
article #009

A Royal Ammonite Seal Impression
by Robert Deutsch
Michael: Historical, Epigraphical and Biblical
Studies in Honor of Prof. Michael Heltzer
1999

Barak'el's bulla, enlarged
This minute black clay bulla bears the seal impression of Barak'el the king of Ammon.
article #008

Seal of Ba'alis Surfaces: Ammonite king plotted murder of Judabite governor
by Robert Deutsch
Biblical Archaeology Review
March/April 1999, Pp. 46-9, 66

Just as archaeological discoveries flesh out Israelite history, so they also tell us about Israel's neighbors -- and sometime enemies.
article #007

Numismatic Evidence from the Persian Period from the Sharon Plain
by Robert Deutsch and Michael Heltzer
Transeuphratene
Vol 13, 1997

A bridled horse walking; reverse, a Persian royal sphinx
The Phoenician and Aramaic votive inscriptions from the 5th century BCE published in 1994 originate from the site of Eliachin in the central Sharon plain in Israel. [1] These inscriptions reveal strong evidence of the Phoenician and Persian presence in the Sharon.
article #006

A Portrait Coin of Agrippa II Reconsidered
by Robert Deutsch
Israel Numismatic Journal
Vol 9, 1986-7
Agrippa I issued coins depicting himself in the 2nd, 7th and 8th years of his reign.
article #005

A Unique Prutah from the First Year of the Jewish War Against Rome
by Robert Deutsch
Israel Numismatic Journal
Vol 12, 1992-3, Pp 71-2

A Jewish bronze coin (prutah) depicting an amphora -- and a vine-leaf on the reverse
In 1538, Guillaume Postel first showed the Samaritan script on a Jewish shekel. Since then, shekels and other coins of the Jewish War against Rome (66-70) have became well known.
article #004

Six Unrecorded 'Yehud' Silver Coins
by Robert Deutsch
Israel Numismatic Journal
Vol 11, 1992-3, Pp 4-6

Very few Judean coins from the fourth century BC were known until 1966. Since then, however, the rich and fascinating material that has become known has changed the situation entirely.
article #003

Abday on Eleventh-Century BCE Arrowheads
by Robert Deutsch and Michael Heltzer
Israel Exploration Journal
Vol 47, Nos. 1-2, 1997, Pp. 111-2
article #002

First Impression: What We Learn from King Ahaz's Seal
by Robert Deutsch
Biblical Archaeology Review
July 1998, Pp. 54, 55, 56, 62
It is time to give Biblical Archaeology Review readers a look at the first seal impression of a Hebrew king ever found.
article #001