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Menahem Shemi
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1928
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Amiram Erev
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Nof HaGalil, Israel
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1960–1965
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Siona Shimshi
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1955–1965
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Engraved tridacna (clam) shells like this one from Arad seem to have been used as cosmetic containers in the Near East and Mediterranean worlds in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE. This…
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Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age IIC, Second Half of 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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On this coin, the owl has lost some of the distinctive features of the Athenian prototypes. Instead of the large prominent eyes, the face is relatively small, and the eyes are even smaller. The bird’s…
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Yehud, Land of Israel (Southern Israel, Israel)
Date:
Persian Period, 4th Century BCE
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The image of an ear on this coin may symbolize God as the one who hears prayers, as in passages such as Psalm 34:16, 18, and Psalm 130:2. The image is paralleled on Egyptian stelas that depict…
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Yehud, Land of Israel (Southern Israel, Israel)
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Persian Period, 4th Century BCE
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The Arab Question—with which the youngsters born in this Land have been familiar for many years, and because of which they were subject to disgrace and ridicule by the prominent men within the Yishuv…
Contributor:
Chaim Ben-Kiki
Places:
Tiberias, Occupied Enemy Territory Administration over Ottoman Syria (Tiberias, Israel)
Date:
1921
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These hollow, spool-shaped terra-cotta objects from Beth Shemesh would hold one or more pellets (often small pebbles) that when shaken would produce a sound. They have been considered babies’ toys…
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Beth Shemesh, Land of Israel (Tel Bet Shemesh, Israel)
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Iron Age II, Late 8th–6th Century BCE
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The holy tongue is a language like no other. All other tongues exist only by agreement, each nation having agreed upon its language. But the holy tongue is the one…
Contributor:
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1937