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An Early Christian Bread Stamp
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2011
Abstract
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1 See my Symbols, III, figs. 17, 45, 548.
2 Ibid., VII, 3–28.
3 Ibid., VII, 24–27.
4 Ibid., Ill, figs. 335–337, 571f., 574–576, 769, etc.
5 Ibid., figs. 577, 580, 582.
6 From ibid., fig. 1012; cf. figs. 891, 1016, 1018; II, 217.
7 Ibid., III, fig. 878. In II, 77 I say that I think Sukenik wrong in calling this a shofar; but I have regretted saying this for several years.
8 Courtesy of the Palestine Archeological Museum. I refer, of course, to the stone on the left. See my Symbols, I, 88; III, fig. 99.
9 The photograph was kindly given me by my friend I. Ben Dor. I do not know of its ever having been published.
10 Symbols, IV, 94, n. 144.
11 Ibid., II, 136f.; IV, 71–98.
12 Ibid., II, 102; see n. 15 there.
13 Canova, Reginetta, Iscrizioni e monumenti protocristiani del paese di Moab, Vatican, 1954Google Scholar, plate III at p. cxxvi, kindly sent me by Avi Yonah. The work is not accessible to me.
14 Symbols, III, fig. 587; cf. I, 222.
15 Ibid., III, fig. 957; cf. II, 102.
16 Ibid., VII, 196, and figs. 222f.
17 Courtesy of the Department of Antiquities, Israel, and of Dr. M. Avi Yonah. It is published in a booklet for tourists prepared by Dr. Mosche Pearlman, but he will soon publish it critically with the other Avdat inscriptions. This was in the church of St. Theodore.
18 By our reckoning, Avi Yonah writes me, A.D. 551.
19 One recalls at once the menorah on the Arch of Titus: Symbols, IV, fig. 1; see also III, figs. 592, 646, 663, 707, 716, 719, 768, 805, 958, 983, 1021, 1026.
20 Ibid., figs. 761, 763, 771, 945.
21 From Symbols, III, fig. 288; cf. I, 153f.
22 On two free-standing columns in Jewish art see ibid., X, 106.
23 On “value” vs. “explanations” in the history of symbolism see ibid., IV, 32–43.
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