Showing Results 11 - 13 of 13
Public Access
Image
Harvesting and threshing in Egyptian painting, from the tomb of Pa-heri (New Kingdom, 18th dynasty, 15th century BCE). In the lower register, on the right, reapers are followed by a woman and child…
Places:
Nekheb, Egypt (Al Kawm al Aḩmar, Egypt)
Date:
New Kingdom (Egypt), 14th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
Mikri (“little one”) Wife of Yehuda Hamon (d. 1642)
Yesterday I was playing on the earth, in my husband’s embrace, like a tiny lamb, And an angel came and preyed upon me in his wrath…
Places:
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Türkiye)
Date:
1642–1704
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
A song I engraved on the tombstone (matzevet) of my master, my father, may he be remembered for the life of the world to come. The holy seed shall be its stock (matzavtah; Isaiah 6:13), is it not the…
Contributor:
Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Türkiye)
Date:
Beginning of the 18th Century