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Jar with Governor of the City Inscription
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To/of the governor of the city. Translated by Shmuel Aḥituv, Ze’ev Meshel, and Esther Eshel.

Places:

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

Date:

Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Economic life, Food and drink, Cities, Leadership

Categories:

Household Objects, Visual & Material Culture
Jar with two handles and Hebrew inscription.
Silver Cup
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This silver-gilt cup is decorated with representations of the biblical patriarch Jacob’s twelve sons, each standing in his own separate archway with his Hebrew name inscribed underneath. This cup was…

Contributor:

Joachim Michael Salecker

Places:

Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)

Date:

1723

Subjects:

Food and drink, Allegory, Ritual object, Economic life, Cities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Food & drink, Decorative Arts
Silver cup with engraving of biblical figures along base and astrological figures and decorative designs on lid.
Modeling the Destruction of Jerusalem
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“And you, O mortal, take a brick and put it in front of you, and incise on it a city, Jerusalem. Set up a siege against it, and build towers against it, and cast a mound against it; pitch…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Prophets, Cities, Jerusalem, Food and drink, Punishment

Categories:

Literature, Prophetic Literature
Tablet with etching of lines and squares, cracked in half.