Biblical Archaeology Review

Lois Berkowitz, “Has the U.S. Geological Survey Found King Solomon’s Gold Mines?” BAR 03:03.

The deben weight in the New Kingdom (1550–1070 B.C.) and later has been computed at 91 grams, from weighing extant examples. (See Sir A. H. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar [Oxford, 1950], ss. 266:4).

In the Hebrew text, the denomination of the weight is not given. This is not uncommon, and the reader was expected to know it would be the most common for the type of object being weighed, and so was usually the shekel, as assumed here. One might compare the English use of “a half” in ordering drink, when “pint” is understood but not stated.

Hershel Shanks, “Ancient Ivory—The Story of Wealth, Decadence and Beauty,” BAR 11:05.

The manuscript of this novel was discovered in 1888, and is now in the collection of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

The Greek term “stele” (plural, “stelai”) is also used.

“Annual Meeting” refers to the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR), which meet in joint session each November. The 1988 Annual Meeting was held in Chicago on November 19–22, 1988.

See Amos Kloner, “Name of Ancient Israel’s Last President Discovered on Lead Weight,” BAR 14:04.