Acknowledgments Preface A. Introduction 1. History of Research a. The Early Phase of Research: First Discoveries and First Hypotheses b. The Middle Phase of Research: The Main Corpus and the Main Points of Agreement c. The Late Phase of Research: Expanded Corpus Refined Conclusions, Improved Typology 2. The Need for New Research 3. Persian and Hellenistic Stamp Impressions Not Included in the Corpus 4.

The yehud Stamp Impressions: Basic Facts on Numbers and Sites B. Geopolitical and Archaeological Considerations 1. Geopolitical Considerations 2. Archaeological Considerations 3. Petrography of the yehud Jar Stamp Impressions C. The Paleographical Framework for the yehud Stamp Impressions 1. Chronological Framework 2. Arrival of Aramaic Script in Yehud 3.

Outline of the Development of the Script 4. The Development of the Lapidary Script and the Place of yehud Stamp Impressions in the Sequence 5. Summary D. The Toponym Yehud and the Title pw 1. The Toponym Yehud 2. The Title pw E. The Early Types 1. Introduction to the Early Types 2.

Type 1: "Belonging to Aîab, the Governor" 3. Type 2: "Yehûd Ûriyaw" 4. Type 3: "Yehûd Malkiyaw" 5. Type 4: "Yehûd ananah" 6. Types 2-4: Summary Discussion 7. Type 5: "Yehûd" 8. Type 6 Yehûd" 9. Type 7: "Yehûd, Yehôezer, the governor" 10.

Type 8: ?????? ? ???? "Belonging to ?anûnah, Yehûd" 11. Type 9: "Yaazan, son of Yasub, Yehûd" 12. Type 10: "Belonging to Yehoezer" 13. Type 11: "Gedalyah" 14. Type 12: "Yehûd Pawa" 15. Summary of the Early Types F. The Middle Types 1. Introduction to the Middle Types 2.

Type 13: "Yehud" 3. Type 14: "Yeh(ud)" 4. Type 15: "overlapping" G. The Late Types 1. Introduction to the Late Types: Dating the Late Types on Archaeological Grounds 2. Type 16: -ligature 3. Type 17: "et + Yehud" 4. Summary of the Late Types H.

Summary and Synthesis Distribution of the Early Types Distribution of the Middle Types Distribution of the Late Types Function Abbreviations of Periodicals and Series Bibliography Indexes Index of Toponyms Index of Authors.