Faience Amulet Depicting Bes
Iron Age IIA, 10th–9th Century BCE
Image
Image
Please login or register for free access to Posen Library
Already have an account?
You may also like
Jewish Men’s and Women’s Clothing in Worms (Tracht der Juden zu Worms)
The illustrations Tracht der Juden zu Worms (Jewish Men’s and Women’s Clothing in Worms) show a man and woman in typical Jewish fashion of the sixteenth century. The woman wears a white veil and…
Printed Amulet
This printed amulet to protect a woman in childbirth features a central scene depicting Adam and Eve and several animals in the Garden of Eden, with a snake coiled around the forbidden “tree of…
Costume Design for Dovid Bergelson’s The Deaf One
In the wake of the Russian Revolution and the lifting of restrictions on Jewish publishing, Jewish theater companies revolutionized theater and scene design and experimented with modernist approaches…