Israel Museum Studies in Archaeology Volume 12 • 2025

NOW OUT, OPEN ACCESS: Israel Museum Studies in Archaeology Volume 12 • 2025

Contents

Dudi Mevorah, Ruth E. Jackson-Tal 4 In Memoriam Yael Israeli, 1933–2025

Arlette David 8 Amenhotep IV’s Large ‘Commemorative’ Scarabs

Eran Arie 24 Five Statuette Heads from the Warschaw Collection at the Israel Museum: Tracing Gaza’s Role in the Distribution of Cypriot Statuary in the Persian-Period Southern Levant

Shimon Gibson, Rafael Y. Lewis, Yarden Pagelson, Dudi Mevorah, Hadas Seri 44 A Roman Spatha Sword and Scabbard from Excavations on Mount Zion in Jerusalem

Ofer Pogorelsky 66 “An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife” A Greek Funerary Inscription in the Collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Ohad Abudraham, Ofer Pogorelsky 74 A Forgotten Nabataean Inscription from the Moshe Dayan Collection at the Israel Museum

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