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Jewish Man in Cairo
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This engraving depicting a Jewish man in Cairo, Egypt is from Cornelis de Bruyn’s travelogue, Reizen van Corn. de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus enz…

Contributor:

Cornelis de Bruyn

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Music, Dress, Leisure, Cities, Ethnography

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Dress & Adornment
Print depicting man in turban and draped robe sitting amid pillows and playing instrument with bow.
Beses and Lyre Player
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This detail appears on the right side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud. The two Bes figures on the lower left are unrelated to the lyre player in the upper right. Bes was a minor…

Places:

Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)

Date:

Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Music, Angels, demons & deities, Dress, Animals

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting, Household Objects
Ceramic fragment with painting of two figures in headdresses and a lyre player decorated with dots, and Hebrew inscriptions on top of fragment.