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The griffin on this black stone seal found in Jerusalem has a bovine body. Its wings are held out and down.
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB–IIC, 8th Century BCE
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Images of this type—with a male figure holding two caprids (probably ibexes) by the horns—are dubbed “master of the animals” and are seen throughout the ancient world. They often represent a female…
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Dan, Land of Israel
(Tel Dan, Israel)
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Iron Age IIA, Late 10th–Early 9th Century BCE
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Jankel Adler
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1931
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Avraham Melnikov
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Tel Hai, Mandate Palestine
(Tel H̱ay, Israel)
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1934
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Jacques Lipchitz
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Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
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1938
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The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim judgment upon it; for their wickedness has come before Me.
Jonah, however, started…
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Biblical Period
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Carnes:The farmer and the cowman should be friends,
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.
One man likes to push a plough,
The other likes to chase a cow,
But that’s no reason why they cain…
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Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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In this detail from the left side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud, two ibexes are eating the flora of a schematic tree, all set above a striding lion. These common motifs are typically…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel
(Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Iron Age IIB, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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Gassing the woodchucks didn’t turn out right.
The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange
was featured as merciful, quick at the bone
and the case we had against them was airtight,
both exits…
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Maxine Kumin
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1972
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[ . . . ] 2. When you stroll along the riverbank, you find an entire plain filled with reeds and bulrushes, all of which are standing erect, one adjacent to the other, and none of them…
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Menachem Mendel Lefin
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Satanów, Russian Empire
(Sataniv, Ukraine)
Date:
1808