Showing Results 1 - 3 of 3
Restricted
Image
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…
Places:
Ketef Hinnom, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
This tombstone of Isaac ben Ḥayim, who died in 1728, includes (at the top) a pair of deer and a pair of lions, animal carvings that often appeared on Jewish tombstones in Eastern Europe. They…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Polonne, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Polonne, Ukraine)
Date:
1728
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
This Assyrian-style monument commemorates the death of Josef Trumpeldor, who was killed by Arabs in 1920 at the Jewish settlement of Tel Hai. His heroic death and the idea of “one against many” became…
Contributor:
Avraham Melnikov
Places:
Tel Hai, Mandate Palestine (Tel H̱ay, Israel)
Date:
1934