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This mirror was found in the Moringa burial cave at En Gedi; its tang would have been fitted into a handle, now missing, made of metal, ivory, or bone (see Ivory and Bone Carvings and Engraved…
These cosmetic implements from Gibeon include a limestone bowl decorated with small, incised circles and two bronze spatulas. Tweezers for plucking hairs have also been found.
This comb is from a Philistine site at Ekron, but combs looked the same throughout the region.
Juice of black raisins.
Translated by Anson F. Rainey from Shmuel Aḥituv’s Hebrew edition.
Since chairs and beds were valuable items and not found in average homes (people usually sat on the floor and slept on mats), it is possible that terra-cotta models like this one from Lachish…
The top register of this plaque from Hazor depicts a crouching winged sphinx wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. The lower register shows two stylized three-tiered palmettes. The…
In this detail from the left side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud, two ibexes are eating the flora of a schematic tree, all set above a striding lion. These common motifs are typically…
The span of time to be discussed here comprises what are popularly termed the biblical period and the Second Temple period. The biblical period is held to begin somewhere within the second millennium…
Legal complaint on ostracon, Metsad Hashaviahu, Israel, from the late 7th century BCE. A worker states that a superior took his garment despite the laborer having fulfilled his work requirements…
Samaria ostracon (A Shipment of Wine), early 8th century BCE, from the ruins of a building near the royal palace. The text can be read here.
