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CONTENTS AHITUV, SHMUEL, DEMSKY, AARON, GOREN, YUVAL and LEMAIRE, ANDRE: The Inscribed Pomegranate from the Israel Museum Examined Again Buovsky, GABRIELA: Numismatic Evidence for the Gallus Revolt: The Hoard from Lod Faust, AVRAHAM: The Sharon and the Yarkon Basin in the Tenth Century BCE: Ecology, Settlement Patterns and Political Involvement . FISCHER, MOsHE and SAAR, OrTAL-PAz: A Magical Mirror Plaque from Yavneh-Yam.... GARFINKEL, YOSEF, BEN-SHLOMO, DAviID, FREIKEMAN, MICHAEL and VERED, ARIEL: Tel Tsaf: The 2004-2006 Excavation Seasons. Horowitz, WAYNE and OsHIMA, TAKAYOSHI: Hazor 15: A Letter Fragment from Hazor RAINEY, ANSON F.: Whence Came the Israelites and Their Language? . . S REICH, RONNY, SHUKRON, EL! and LERNAU, Omri: Recent Discoveries in the City of David, Jerusalem TAXEL, ITAMAR: Application-Decorated Bowls: A Cultural Characterisation of the Pagan and Christian Population of Jerusalem in the Late Roman and Byzantine Periods ZirFeER, IRIT: The First Adam, Androgyny, and the Ain Ghazal Two-headed Busts in Context VARIA HADAD, SHULAMIT: Weights from the Early Roman Period at Ramat Hanadiv . LEMAIRE, ANDRE: New Photographs and ryt or Ayt in the Mesha Inscription, CONTENTS AHITUV, SHMUEL, DEMSKY, AARON, GOREN, YUVAL and LEMAIRE, ANDRE: The Inscribed Pomegranate from the Israel Museum Examined Again Buovsky, GABRIELA: Numismatic Evidence for the Gallus Revolt: The Hoard from Lod Faust, AVRAHAM: The Sharon and the Yarkon Basin in the Tenth Century BCE: Ecology, Settlement Patterns and Political Involvement . FISCHER, MOsHE and SAAR, OrTAL-PAz: A Magical Mirror Plaque from Yavneh-Yam.... GARFINKEL, YOSEF, BEN-SHLOMO, DAviID, FREIKEMAN, MICHAEL and VERED, ARIEL: Tel Tsaf: The 2004-2006 Excavation Seasons. Horowitz, WAYNE and OsHIMA, TAKAYOSHI: Hazor 15: A Letter Fragment from Hazor RAINEY, ANSON F.: Whence Came the Israelites and Their Language? . . S REICH, RONNY, SHUKRON, EL! and LERNAU, Omri: Recent Discoveries in the City of David, Jerusalem TAXEL, ITAMAR: Application-Decorated Bowls: A Cultural Characterisation of the Pagan and Christian Population of Jerusalem in the Late Roman and Byzantine Periods ZirFeER, IRIT: The First Adam, Androgyny, and the Ain Ghazal Two-headed Busts in Context VARIA HADAD, SHULAMIT: Weights from the Early Roman Period at Ramat Hanadiv . LEMAIRE, ANDRE: New Photographs and ryt or Ayt in the Mesha Inscription, NOTES AND NEWS Excavations and Surveys SS ey ee en ee ee eee eee eo ee a 211 Sepphoris (Sippori), 2006 Sepphoris (Sippori), 2097 Tel Tsaf, 2007 Conferences The Thirty-Third Archaeological Conference in Israel Obituaries eerie en nN om Diol nin a ea na an ea ata ee 241 ERO 0 ne ee aan ea nn any ene REGS «7 REVIEWS BRANIGAN, K. (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age — AREN M. MAEIR CHARLESWORTH, JAMES, H., The Pesharim and Qumran. History Chaos or Consensus ( == TATE ISEZAN Sk 5 6k Si one es ee ee ieee es 244 Gitcer, H. and TAL, O., The Coinage of Philistia of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC. A Study of the Earliest Coins of Palestine — JOHN BOARDMAN HACHLILI, R. The Menorah, the Ancient Seven-armed Candelabrum: Origin, Form and Significance — Lee |. Levint Horowitz, WAYNE and OsHIMA, TAKAYOSHI, Cuneiform in Canaan. Cuneiform Sources from the Land of Israel in Ancient Times, with SANDERS, SETH (Alphabetic Cuneiform Texts) — MORDECHAI COGAN ............2-. Humpert, J.-B. and GUNNEWEG, J. (eds.), Khirbet Qumran et Ain Feshkha Il — RONNY REICH RAINEY, ANSON F. and Not.ey, R. STEVEN, The Sacred Bridge. Carta ’s Atlas of the Biblical World — Morvecuai COGAN Stern, E., “En-Gedi Excavations |. Conducted by B. Mazar and I. Dunayevsky, Final Report — AREN M. MAEIR TALGAM, Rina and Weiss, ZEEV, The Mosaics of the House of Dionysos at a EC OE oo nese 6 we SS ee ee 248 BOOKS RECEIVED — 2006