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This agate seal with an image of a rooster was found in a Roman-period tomb at Tell en-Nasbeh (Mizpah), but its script dates it to the late seventh or early sixth century BCE. The bottom register…
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Mizpah, Land of Israel (Tell en-Nasbeh, West Bank)
Date:
Iron Age IIC, Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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This 21-inch-high (54 cm) stand was made in the ajouré (open-spaced) style and finished to look like bronze. In the bottom register, a nude female with raised arms (a fertility goddess?) touches the…
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Taanach, Land of Israel (Tall Ti‘innik, West Bank)
Date:
Iron Age IIA, 10th–9th Century BCE
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And in the City of London we went to the Fort which is called the Tower, and there I saw lions and an eagle one hundred years old and a great snake from India and another snake and other wild beasts…
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Ḥayim Joseph David Azulai
Places:
Hebron, Ottoman Empire (Hebron, West Bank)
Date:
Second Half of the 19th Century