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Faience-tile mosaic of floral designs throughout, two lines of Hebrew text at the top, and three niches at bottom.

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Visual and Material Culture, 1500–1750

1500–1750

Photograph of tomb on top of stone structures.

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Tomb of Pharaoh’s Daughter

Iron Age II, 9th–7th Century BCE

Photograph of room with inner doorways.

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St. Etienne Burial Caves

Iron Age II, 9th–7th Century BCE

Drawing of reconstructed tomb cutout of a chamber built along hills.

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Tombs from Ketef Hinnom Cemetery

Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Century BCE

Interior room with ledges, one of which holds a skeleton, and a floor covered with pottery.

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Burial Chamber from Ketef Hinnom Cemetery

Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Century BCE

Rectangular chamber in ground with steps and several doorways.

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Double Burial Chamber in St. Étienne Cemetery

Iron Age II, 9th–7th Century BCE

Stone piece with carving of small hand with fingers pointing downward and Hebrew inscription.

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Hamsa-like Hand in Khirbet el-Kom (Makkedah) Tomb

Iron Age II, 8th Century BCE

Photograph of headstones in cemetery.

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Chatham Square Cemetery

1798

Painting of travelers surrounding tomb.

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Prayers at the Tomb of Rabbi Isaac ben Sheshet at Algiers

ca. 1870

Silver signet ring with image of galloping griffin.

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Silver Signet Ring

Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Century BCE

Glass and stone beaded necklace including three large triangular shaped pendants with stripes, and an irregular shaped pendant.

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Necklace of Beads

Persian Period, 5th Century BCE

Statue of a lion roaring toward the sky on pedestal with Hebrew writing.

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Roaring Lion

Avraham Melnikov

1934