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Men Doing Obeisance to Sennacherib
ca. 701 BCE
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Evidence for the material culture of ancient Israel comes mostly from artifacts and archaeology and attests to the influence of the great empires that surrounded Israel.
This mirror was found in the Moringa burial cave at En Gedi; its tang would have been fitted into a handle, now missing, made of metal, ivory, or bone (see Ivory and Bone Carvings and Engraved…
Cake mold in shape of nude female (replica), Cyprus, ca. 980–500 BCE. The mold, probably dating to the Iron Age II or a century later, emphasizes the nose, breasts, and genital region and likely would…
This watercolor from the Gennadius Library’s Costume Album collection, in Athens, depicts two Jewish women—a widow (left) and a married woman (right)—in the colorful traditional attire of…