Number 293 February 1994
ARTICLES
- J. N. POSTGATE: In Search of the First Empires . . . . . 1
- LORENZO NIGRO: The "Nordburg" of Megiddo: A New Reconstruction on the Basis of Schumacher's Plan . . . . .15
- WAYNE T.PITARD: The Reading of KTU 1.19:III:41: The Burial of Aqhat . . . . . 31
- SUSAN HEUCK ALLEN: Trojan Grey Ware at Tel Miqne-Ekron . . . . . 39
- JANE C. WALDBAUM: Early Greek Contacts with the Southern Levant, ca. 1000-600 B.C.: The Eastern Perspective . . . . . 53
- ADA YARDENI: Maritime Trade and Royal Accountancy in an Erased Customs Account from 475 B.C.E. on the Ahiqar Scroll from Elephantine . . . . . 67
SHORT NOTES
- ST. J. SIMPSON: Gazelle-hunters and Salt-collectors: A Further Note on the Solubba . . . . . 79
- JEFFREY R. ZORN: Two Rosette Stamp Impressions from Tell en-Nasbeh . . . . . 81
BOOK REVIEWS
- ROBERT HOUSTON SMITH and LESLIE PRESTON DAY: Pella of the Decapolis 2: Final Report on The College of Wooster Excavations in Area IX, The Civic Complex, 1979-1985 (James A. Sauer) . . . . . 83
- SHELBY BROWN: Late Carthaginian Child Sacrifice and Sacrificial Monuments in their Mediterranean Context (Tryggve N. D. Mettinger) . . . . . 84
- DANIEL E. FLEMING: The Installation of Baal's High Priestess at Emar: A Window on Ancient Syrian Religion (Gary Beckman) . . . . . 87
- JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH: Graphic Concordance to the Dead Sea Scrolls (Deirdre Dempsey) . . . . . 88
- AHARON KEMPINSKI AND RONNY REICH, editors: The Architecture of Ancient Israelfrom the Prehistoric to the Persian Periods (Oded Borowski) . . . . . 89
- JEAN-FRANÇOIS BRETON, editor: Fouilles de Shabwa (Gus W. Van Beek) . . . . . 90
- F. BRIQUEL-CHATONNET: Les relations entre les cités de la côte phénicienne et les royaumes d'Israël et de Juda (Paul Dion) . . . . . 92
- ÉDOUARD LIPINSKI, editor: Dictionnaire de la Civilisation Phénicienne et Punique (Glenn Markoe) . . . . . 94
- BENJAMIN MAZAR: Biblical Israel: State and People (Oded Borowski) . . . . . 95