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Ivory Box with Ritual Scene
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This ritual scene was carved twice on a cylindrical ivory box from Hazor, about 2.7 inches high and 2.2 inches in diameter (7 × 6 cm). A kneeling man raises his hands in prayer toward a stylized tree…

Places:

Hazor, Land of Israel (Tel Hazor, Israel)

Date:

Iron Age IIB, 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Ecology, Animals, Angels, demons & deities, Prayer

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Ritual Objects
Drawing of figure crouched down next to central altar and winged sphinx, under set of parallel lines.
Shadai’a (Dedicatory Plaque)
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This shadai’a (dedicatory plaque) from the Romaniote community in Ioannina, Greece, is made of repoussé silver with an engraved Hebrew inscription. The central inscription is a rhymed text dedicated…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Ioannina, Ottoman Empire (Ioannina, Greece)

Date:

1728

Subjects:

Ritual object, Prayer, Mourning, Repentance, Romaniote

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects, Decorative Arts
Plaque with Hebrew text and two chains hanging from the bottom.