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I besieged and captured Samaria. I took as spoil 27,290 people who live there; I organized (a contingent of) fifty of their chariots and I instructed the rest of them in correct conduct. I appointed…
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722–705 BCE
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Persian Period, Late 6th–Early 5th Century BCE
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Al Kawm al Aḩmar, Egypt
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New Kingdom (Egypt), 14th Century BCE
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Pozo Moro, Kingdom of Iberia
(Madrid, Spain)
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ca. 500 BCE
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In Jewish tradition, the command to “bind them [God’s words] as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead” is understood as requiring passages from the Torah to be written on…
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Qumran, Land of Israel
(Khirbat Qumrān, Israel)
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Second Temple Period
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Banī Ḩasan ash Shurūq, Egypt
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Middle Kingdom (Egypt), 20th–18th Century BCE
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The cemetery in the village of Silwan, on the hill east of the City of David, included some aboveground tombs, cut out from the cliffs on three or four sides so that they look like buildings. These…
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age II, 9th–7th Century BCE
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The top register of this plaque from Hazor depicts a crouching winged sphinx wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. The lower register shows two stylized three-tiered palmettes. The…
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Hazor, Land of Israel
(Tel Hazor, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB, first half of 8th century BCE
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The image on this coin is the front of a hybrid creature with the body of a winged feline (probably that of a lynx) and the head of a human. The head, crowned, has a beard and horns, representing a…
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Yehud, Land of Israel
(Southern Israel, Israel)
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Persian Period, 4th Century BCE
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Yehud, Land of Israel
(Southern Israel, Israel)
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Persian Period, 4th Century BCE