Lion-shaped Weight

Iron Age II, 8th Century BCE

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Bronze weight in shape of crouching lion.

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Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)

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Ivory-openwork Panel with a Sphinx Striding through Lotus Flowers

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Silver medal featuring synagogue and German text.

Medal from Dedication of the Munich Synagogue in 1826

I. W. Loewenbach’s medal commemorating the dedication of the new synagogue in Munich (1826) is among the earliest German synagogue medals. On one side of the medal, one sees the façade of the…

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Reconstructed stone altar with horns at four upper corners.

Altar of Hewn Sandstone (Ashlars) from Beersheba

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Lion-shaped Weight

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