Baruch Brandl, Xiaoli Ouyang, Andrea M. Berlin, Sharon C. Herbert, Anastasia Shapiro. “A Persian Period Bulla from Tel Qedesh, Israel, and Its Implications for Relations between Tyre and Nippur”

In 1999, twenty years before this publication, a bulla in perfect state of preservation was found Byzantine-period pit at Tel Qedesh. The fact that it almost completely intact all its parts, combination with the relatively recent publication cuneiform documents from private collections, has permitted Authors to attribute original stamp seal Persian period, reconstruct possible sealing’s use context (a papyrus sealing) and advance hypothe...