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The six men from Lachish in this section of Sennacherib's palace relief are dressed quite differently from the men shown in other sections. They are clad in the simplest of short-sleeved, unbelted…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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ca. 701 BCE
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Fragment of beige linen material with blue linear embellishment and added red wool, from Kuntillet Ajrud. The dyes are from vegetal sources, the blue from indigo and the red from alizarin. Textiles…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Centuries BCE
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These silver earrings of solid lunates have fixed attachments and attachments of hollow granule clusters. They are from a tomb at Tel Ira in the northern Negev.
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Ketef Hinnom, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Century BCE
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Silver signet ring with image of galloping griffin, a hybrid creature that consists of feline body and legs, avian head and wings, and serpentine tail. Found in a burial cave in the Ketef Hinnom…
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Ketef Hinnom, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Century BCE
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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…
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Artist Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1574
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Born in Halberstadt, northern Germany, Alexander David (1687–1765) served as Court Jew to Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, providing the ducal court with luxury items as well as banking…
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Artist Unknown
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Braunschweig, Holy Roman Empire (Braunschweig, Germany)
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ca. 1750
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Baghdad-born Suleiman (Saliman) Menaḥem Mani (1850–1924) held many important posts in Ottoman Palestine, including chief rabbi of Hebron. He was also a Hebrew poet and fiction writer and the author of…
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Hebron, Ottoman Palestine (Hebron, Palestine)
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Early 20th Century
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This sumptuous velvet and gilt-metal-thread embroidered Torah ark curtain most likely began its life as the wedding gown of a well-to-do Jewish woman of the Ottoman Empire. It was unstitched and…
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İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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Early 20th Century
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This goblet-shaped cosmetic container of white limestone is from Hazor. The footed base, midsection with festoon pattern, and deep bowl with upper frieze of alternating checkerboard pattern form three…
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Hazor, Land of Israel (Tel Hazor, Israel)
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Iron Age II, 10th–6th Century BCE
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This velvet tefillin bag is embroidered on one side with images of flowers; the reverse side contains the date and the imperial double-headed eagle, a symbol of both the Austro-Hungarian and the…
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Rachel Millman
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Bessarabia, Russian Empire (Bessarabia, Moldova)
Date:
1907