A Bibliographical List of Cuneiform Inscriptions from Canaan, Palestine/Philistia, And the Land of Israel‪.‬

INTRODUCTION TODAY WE ARE ABLE to place eighty-nine objects in our corpus. These range from well-known texts such as the Taanach letters, which have been studied and translated a number of times (Taanach 1-2, 5-6), to mere scraps of clay, and include texts belonging to a wide variety of genres, including literature, royal inscriptions, letters, administrative texts, inscribed cylinder seals, lexical texts, mathematical texts, omens, and a magical/medical text. More than a third of the inscribed objects come from three sites: Taanach (17), Hazor (15), and Aphek (8). Samaria has yielded six objects, including late fourth-century coins, (4) while Megiddo has yielded five, but only one cuneiform tablet. (5) No other site has provided more than four items. In fact, a majority of sites have contributed only an item or two.