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The houses and rooms of the inhabitants of this most famous city are one or the other of two extremes: the good ones are sumptuous houses at the height of perfection and…
Contributor:
Moses Almosnino
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1567
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Kikar Levana is an environmental sculpture in Tel Aviv, located on a hill in Edith Wolfson Park. Commissioned to commemorate the builders of the city, its simple geometrical shapes and white concrete…
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Dani Karavan
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1977–1988
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Amo]s son of Ahiel, the rag shredder
. . . ya]hu son of Hasadyahu, the sil[ver] collector
. . . ]yahu [son of Ye]dayahu the [silver] collector
Translated by Anson F. Rainey from Shmuel Aḥituv’s…
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City of David, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
7th Century BCE
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Elitsedek/Eltsadak (son of) Shahli
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Rehob, Land of Israel (Tel Reḥov, Israel)
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9th Century BCE
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Seal impression on jar handle: Yehud.
Seal impression on jar handle: Yehud, the Governor.
Seal impression on jar handle: Yehud, Yehoezer, the Governor.
Seal impression on jar handle: (Belonging) to…
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Judah, Land of Israel (Southern Israel, Israel)
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Babylonian and Persian Periods BCE, 6th–4th Centuries BCE
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In the tenth year, to Shemaryaw, from Beerayim:
a jar of aged wine.
Gara (son of) Elisha 2.
Uzza (son of) Ka[?]besh (?) 1.
Eliba (son of) N[ . . . ] 1.
Baala (son of) Elisha 1.
Yadayaw 1.
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Samaria, Land of Israel (Kaleh Qaţār-e Soflá, Iran)
Date:
First Quarter of the 8th Century BCE
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A bath measure for the king.
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Lachish, Land of Israel (Tel Lakhish, Israel)
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8th Century BCE
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Ai, the troubles of a greenhorn! A scholar in the subject of cloakmaking, as I am today, I had not yet become. And if in those days you had “unioned” me till you were blue in the face, I still would…
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Leon Kobrin
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
Before 1910
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Sender Jarmulowsky’s towering twelve-story Beaux Arts bank branch was located at 54–58 Canal Street on New York’s Lower East Side. When it was built, it was the tallest building in the neighborhood…
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Sender Jarmulowsky
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1912
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Wall Street is considered a seminal work in the history of photography, symbolic of a turn away from pictorialism and toward modernism. Photography would no longer seek to mimic academic painting but…
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Paul Strand
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915