Benjamin Saß
Biographic Data
| ID | 5907152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Saß |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Saß |
| SIGNATURE | SASS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2855-3443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Hebrew Seal from Jaffa and the Hebrew Script in the Post-First Temple Period
“The Lord Will Roar from Zion” (Amos 1: 2): The Lion as a Divine Attribute on a Jerusalem Seal and Other Hebrew Glyptic Finds from the Western Wall Plaza Excavations (pp. 1*–13*)
A stamp seal bearing the image of a roaring lion and a Hebrew legend was found during the excavations of the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem. It is the first seal with a lion motif to be published from Iron Age II Jerusalem, and one of only a few from Judah bearing a lion motif. Two other glyptic finds include a fragment of a scaraboid, inscribed in Hebrew, and a bulla, with a palmette and traces of a Hebrew inscription. These finds are an importan…
The West Semitic Alphabet in the Early Iron Age: A New Hypothesis
In the hypothesis presented by the authors, stratified, nonmonumental inscriptions and their radiometric datings take center stage for the first time. It is in the living script of these texts rather than in the artificial alphabet of monuments that the evolution of the alphabet in Iron IIA can be studied properly. A key take-home lesson of the work is the significant ninth-century transformations of the alphabet from precursive Proto-Canaanite t…
The Lachish Jar Sherd: An Early Alphabetic Inscription Discovered in 2014
The article presents a 12th-century b.c. alphabetic inscription unearthed at Lachish, Israel, during the 2014 excavation season
The West Semitic Alphabetic Inscriptions, Late Bronze II to Iron IIA: Archeological Context, Distribution and Chronology
The article deals with the chronology and geographic distribution of the Late Bronze II to late Iron IIA alphabetic inscriptions found in the Levant, ca. 1300-800 B.C.E., with an emphasis on the archaeological context. It traces the expansion of the alphabet from its core area in the Shephelah in the Late Bronze age to the rest of the Levant starting in the early Iron IIA, ca. 900 B.C.E., and the parallel development of the alphabet away from Pro…
The Mortuary Stele with Samʾalian Inscription from Ördekburnu near Zincirli
For more than a century, the alphabetic inscription on the early-first-millennium Ördekburnu stele has defied decipherment. In 1915, Lidzbarski labeled the language of the hardly legible text non-Semitic, and most specialists have followed suit. We present a new collation of the stele, with a drawing, and a partial transliteration and translation of the Samʾalian text
La stèle d’Ördekburnu: Vers la solution d’une énigme de l’épigraphie ouest-sémitique
Lemaire André, Sass Benjamin. La stèle d’Ördekburnu : vers la solution d’une énigme de l’épigraphie ouest-sémitique. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 156e année, N. 1, 2012. pp. 227-241
Four Notes on Taita King of Palistin with an Excursus on King Solomon's Empire
The paper adds four observations to an earlier note (Sass 2010a) in which the author suggested placing Taita, king of Palistin (Hawkins 2009), in the 10th century, probably towards its end. The paper addresses Taita and the settlement of the Sea Peoples; Taita and hieroglyphic luwian; Taita and the southern levant; and Taita and egypt. An excursus on two 10th-century levantine empires—those of the historical Taita and the biblical Solomon—is also…
Jewellery in the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah and among their Neighbours
Sass Benjamin. Jewellery in the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah and among their Neighbours. In: Revue des études juives, tome 166, n°1-2, janvier-juin 2007. pp. 259-263
Three Seventh-Century B. C. E. Hoards of Silver Jewelry from Tel Miqne-Ekron
Three silver jewelry hoards dated to the seventh century B. C. E. were found at Tel Miqne-Ekron during the 1985, 1988, and 1992 excavation seasons. These hoards are important for three reasons. First, no other local late Iron Age jewelry collection is as securely dated as the Ekron hoards, which make them a basis for evaluating other, less securely dated jewelry finds from the first millennium B. C. E. Second, the contents of the hoards and the c…
The Queen Alia Airport Seal—Proto-Arabic or Gnostic?
Arabs and Greeks in Late First Temple Jerusalem
The Revadim Seal and its Archaic Phoenician Inscription
This seal, one of the earliest with a linear alphabetic inscription, was found in 1959 at Kibbutz Revadim in the Shephelah (Fig. 3). Its find spot lies about three kilometres west of Tel Miqne (Khirbet el-Muqanna'), identified with Ekron of the Philistine Pentapolis. The seal is a scaraboid of hard limestone, most probably mizi hilu , measuring 16 × 13 × 7·5 mm, intended for a ring, as indicated by the two drilled holes that do not meet. The back…
Arabs and Greeks in Late First Temple Jerusalem
Four Notes on Taita King of Palistin with an Excursus on King Solomon's Empire
The paper adds four observations to an earlier note (Sass 2010a) in which the author suggested placing Taita, king of Palistin (Hawkins 2009), in the 10th century, probably towards its end. The paper addresses Taita and the settlement of the Sea Peoples; Taita and hieroglyphic luwian; Taita and the southern levant; and Taita and egypt. An excursus on two 10th-century levantine empires—those of the historical Taita and the biblical Solomon—is also…
The Revadim Seal and its Archaic Phoenician Inscription
This seal, one of the earliest with a linear alphabetic inscription, was found in 1959 at Kibbutz Revadim in the Shephelah (Fig. 3). Its find spot lies about three kilometres west of Tel Miqne (Khirbet el-Muqanna'), identified with Ekron of the Philistine Pentapolis. The seal is a scaraboid of hard limestone, most probably mizi hilu , measuring 16 × 13 × 7·5 mm, intended for a ring, as indicated by the two drilled holes that do not meet. The back…
The Revadim Seal and its Archaic Phoenician Inscription
This seal, one of the earliest with a linear alphabetic inscription, was found in 1959 at Kibbutz Revadim in the Shephelah (Fig. 3). Its find spot lies about three kilometres west of Tel Miqne (Khirbet el-Muqanna'), identified with Ekron of the Philistine Pentapolis. The seal is a scaraboid of hard limestone, most probably mizi hilu , measuring 16 × 13 × 7·5 mm, intended for a ring, as indicated by the two drilled holes that do not meet. The back…
Arabs and Greeks in Late First Temple Jerusalem
The Queen Alia Airport Seal—Proto-Arabic or Gnostic?
Three Seventh-Century B. C. E. Hoards of Silver Jewelry from Tel Miqne-Ekron
Three silver jewelry hoards dated to the seventh century B. C. E. were found at Tel Miqne-Ekron during the 1985, 1988, and 1992 excavation seasons. These hoards are important for three reasons. First, no other local late Iron Age jewelry collection is as securely dated as the Ekron hoards, which make them a basis for evaluating other, less securely dated jewelry finds from the first millennium B. C. E. Second, the contents of the hoards and the c…
Jewellery in the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah and among their Neighbours
Sass Benjamin. Jewellery in the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah and among their Neighbours. In: Revue des études juives, tome 166, n°1-2, janvier-juin 2007. pp. 259-263
Four Notes on Taita King of Palistin with an Excursus on King Solomon's Empire
The paper adds four observations to an earlier note (Sass 2010a) in which the author suggested placing Taita, king of Palistin (Hawkins 2009), in the 10th century, probably towards its end. The paper addresses Taita and the settlement of the Sea Peoples; Taita and hieroglyphic luwian; Taita and the southern levant; and Taita and egypt. An excursus on two 10th-century levantine empires—those of the historical Taita and the biblical Solomon—is also…
La stèle d’Ördekburnu: Vers la solution d’une énigme de l’épigraphie ouest-sémitique
Lemaire André, Sass Benjamin. La stèle d’Ördekburnu : vers la solution d’une énigme de l’épigraphie ouest-sémitique. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 156e année, N. 1, 2012. pp. 227-241
The West Semitic Alphabetic Inscriptions, Late Bronze II to Iron IIA: Archeological Context, Distribution and Chronology
The article deals with the chronology and geographic distribution of the Late Bronze II to late Iron IIA alphabetic inscriptions found in the Levant, ca. 1300-800 B.C.E., with an emphasis on the archaeological context. It traces the expansion of the alphabet from its core area in the Shephelah in the Late Bronze age to the rest of the Levant starting in the early Iron IIA, ca. 900 B.C.E., and the parallel development of the alphabet away from Pro…
The Mortuary Stele with Samʾalian Inscription from Ördekburnu near Zincirli
For more than a century, the alphabetic inscription on the early-first-millennium Ördekburnu stele has defied decipherment. In 1915, Lidzbarski labeled the language of the hardly legible text non-Semitic, and most specialists have followed suit. We present a new collation of the stele, with a drawing, and a partial transliteration and translation of the Samʾalian text
The Lachish Jar Sherd: An Early Alphabetic Inscription Discovered in 2014
The article presents a 12th-century b.c. alphabetic inscription unearthed at Lachish, Israel, during the 2014 excavation season
The West Semitic Alphabet in the Early Iron Age: A New Hypothesis
In the hypothesis presented by the authors, stratified, nonmonumental inscriptions and their radiometric datings take center stage for the first time. It is in the living script of these texts rather than in the artificial alphabet of monuments that the evolution of the alphabet in Iron IIA can be studied properly. A key take-home lesson of the work is the significant ninth-century transformations of the alphabet from precursive Proto-Canaanite t…
“The Lord Will Roar from Zion” (Amos 1: 2): The Lion as a Divine Attribute on a Jerusalem Seal and Other Hebrew Glyptic Finds from the Western Wall Plaza Excavations (pp. 1*–13*)
A stamp seal bearing the image of a roaring lion and a Hebrew legend was found during the excavations of the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem. It is the first seal with a lion motif to be published from Iron Age II Jerusalem, and one of only a few from Judah bearing a lion motif. Two other glyptic finds include a fragment of a scaraboid, inscribed in Hebrew, and a bulla, with a palmette and traces of a Hebrew inscription. These finds are an importan…
A Hebrew Seal from Jaffa and the Hebrew Script in the Post-First Temple Period
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