LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1.1. Proto-Sinaitic inscription, “Beloved of Baʿalat” (BM 41748)

1.2. Shechem inscription, “May waters of the well . . .” (IDAM 38.1201)

1.3. Izbet Sartah abecedary (IDAM 80-1)

1.4. Ivory box from Ur with Phoenician inscription (BM WA 125028)

1.5. Inscribed arrowhead (“The Man of Shophet, the Tyrian”; BLMJ 0868)

1.6. ʾAḥirom sarcophagus

1.7. Kilamuwa inscription from Zinjirli (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, inv. no. S 6579)

1.8. Impression of seal (A.O. 3175)

2.1. “Woman-in-the-window” from Nimrud (BM 118159)

2.2. Jezebel seal (IAA 65-321)

2.3. Taanach cult stand (ASOJS 4197)

2.4. Inscribed pot sherd from Sarepta (Penn Museum image, SAR 2460 II A-6, level 2a)

2.5. Amrit Stele

2.6. Kition inscribed bowl (hair offering; Kition 1435)

2.7. Nora Inscription (Cagliari, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 5998)

3.1. Karatepe Inscription

3.2. Astarte statue from Seville (Museo Arqueológico Provinciál, Siviglia)

3.3. Bronze bowl from Salamis, Cyprus (BM Catalogue of Bronzes no. 186)

3.4. Bowl with decoration of religious ritual; Cypriot, eighth century B.C.E. (MMA 74.51.5700)

3.5. Royal Egyptian victory and mythological scenes, ca. 675 B.C.E. Found at Idalion (Louvre, A.O. 20134)

3.6. Assyrian relief, depicting Tyre (BM Or. Dr. IV, 8)

3.7. Impression of seal with couchant lion (REH-042)

3.8. Seal and impression with man and baboon (A.O. 10882)

3.9. Impression of seal with man in fringed robe (BLMJ Seal 1804)

3.10. Silver Bowl from Praeneste (61565)

4.1. Seal from ʿAkko, picturing a man with an ibex (IAA 73-216)

4.2. Judean titled seal, picturing a rooster (IAA 32.2525)

4.3. Edomite seal (BM 136202)

4.4. Impression of Moabite seal with inscription, star, and crescent (BLMJ 1848)

4.5. Impression of Ammonite seal with bird and inscription (private collection)

4.6. Impression of Ammonite seal (two-sided, one side shown) with monkey and inscription (De Clercq Collection 2512)

5.1. Tabnît inscription on base of sarcophagus (King of Sidon); sarcophagus

5.2. Seal and impression with Hermes and inscription (Henri Seyrig Collection 1973.1.489)

5.3. Mask from ʾAchzib (IDAM)

5.4. Seal and impression with smiting god and wolf (De Clercq Collection 2506)

6.1. Byblian coin of ʿAyyinʾel (ANS 1953.117.2)

6.2. Half-shekel coin of Sidon (ANS 1977.158.736)

6.3. Sidonian coin of Baʿalšillem I (ANS 1997.9.197)

6.4. Sidonian coin of Baʿalšillem II (ANS 1944.100.71301)

6.5. Example of the Symbol of Tannit (from Tunisia, A.O. 5987)