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The Largest Mill in the Orient (Postcard)
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When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first…

Contributor:

Vitaliano Poselli

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

ca. 1900–1912

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Sephardi, Christian-Jewish relations, Cities, Labor

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Large symmetrical, rectangular building next to body of water.
The Siloam Inscription
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[The matter of] the breakthrough: And this is the matter of the breakthrough. While [the hewers were swinging the] axe, each towards his companion, and while there were still three cubits to he[w…

Places:

Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

End of 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Labor, Cities, Technology, Writing

Categories:

Architecture
Piece of wall inscribed with Hebrew.