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Alms Bowl
Iron Age II, 8th Century 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.
Stone and clay pillars, altars, and lampstands provide invaluable insights into ancient Israelite religious practices and their descriptions in the Hebrew Bible.
City square and gatehouse, Beersheba. The foundations of the gate’s chambers are visible at the upper left of the square. Squares just inside or outside of city gates were places of public gathering…
The rosette, impressed on a jar handle here, may have been a royal insignia during the last decades of the Judean monarchy, around the late seventh century BCE. It was found at Ramat Rahel, an…
This remarkable illustration is at the same time a shiviti—traditionally, a decorative plaque bearing the verse: “I am ever mindful of the Lord’s presence”—and a topographic map of the land of Israel…