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Tefillin
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In Jewish tradition, the command to “bind them [God’s words] as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead” is understood as requiring passages from the Torah to be written on…

Places:

Qumran, Land of Israel (Khirbat Qumrān, Israel)

Date:

Second Temple Period

Subjects:

Ritual object, Monotheism, Archaeology

Categories:

Law, Biblical Law, Ritual Objects, Visual & Material Culture
Leather capsule with four indented sections.
Lampstand (Menorah) Depiction from Roman Period Jerusalem
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Lampstand (menorah) depiction from Jerusalem in a plaster engraving (1st century BCE–1st century CE). It is difficult to reconstruct what the lampstands of Exodus 25:31–35 and 1 Kings 7:49 looked like…

Places:

Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

Roman Period, 1st Century BCE or CE

Subjects:

Temple, Ritual object, Art, Hanukkah, Archaeology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Biblical Law, Sculpture, Law
Plaster relief with image of seven-branched candelabrum.