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Lighting the Sabbath and Festival Candles
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This woodcut depicts Jewish women and girls lighting candles to mark the beginning of the Sabbath or a holiday. The illustration appears in a Yiddish translation by Shim’on Levi Gintsburg, printed in…

Contributor:

Isaac Tyrnau, Shim’on Levi Gintsburg

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1600

Subjects:

Women, Holidays, Sabbath, Ritual & observance, Dress

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Household Objects
Printed page with Yiddish text below illustration of women and children lighting a hanging lamp next to dining table.
Beses and Lyre Player
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This detail appears on the right side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud. The two Bes figures on the lower left are unrelated to the lyre player in the upper right. Bes was a minor…

Places:

Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)

Date:

Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Music, Angels, demons & deities, Dress, Animals

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting, Household Objects
Ceramic fragment with painting of two figures in headdresses and a lyre player decorated with dots, and Hebrew inscriptions on top of fragment.
A Procession
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In this detail from a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud, five people stand with raised forearms (their hands are not depicted). As raised hands usually signify praying, the scene may represent…

Places:

Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)

Date:

Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Dress, Community

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting, Household Objects
Jar with one visible handle with painting of five people with raised forearms.