Benjamin Sass Editor

Benjamin Sass is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University. Among his books are Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals (1997), The Alphabet at the Turn of the Millennium (2005), and Aramaic and Figural Stamp Impressions on Bricks of the Sixth Century B.C. from Babylon (2010). For the last decade he has been writing extensively about the alphabet in the earlier Iron Age, frequently in collaboration with Israel Finkelstein.



Laura Battini is a researcher at the French National Centre of Scientific Research. Among her books are L'espace domestique en Mésopotamie (1999), Making Pictures of War (2016), and La déesse aux oies (forthcoming, 2025). She is director of the journal Ash Sharq, and is editor of the series Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, as well as a blog (https://ane.hypotheses.org/). Her principle areas of research are Mesopotamian architecture and urbanism, materiality and the body, and violence.