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This ivory relief bears a common motif, found in ivories from Syria and nearby areas as well: a woman stares straight out from a window set in a triply recessed frame with a balustrade in front. Her…
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Samaria, Land of Israel
(Samaria, Israel)
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Iron Age IIA–IIB, 9th–8th Century BCE
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Iron Age II, 10th–6th Century BCE
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The masonry in the royal palace of Samaria, the capital of the Northern Kingdom, is considered the finest example of ashlar masonry from the Iron Age. The blocks are cut so well that they fit together…
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Samaria, Land of Israel
(Samaria, Israel)
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Iron Age IIA, 9th Century BCE
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Tim Gidal
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Meron, Mandate Palestine
(Har Meron, Israel)
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1935
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Paul Goldman
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Herzliya, Israel
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1957
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Alfred Mansfeld
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1965
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Everyone on earth had the same language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, “Come, let…
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Biblical Period
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Opposite the windowsill is a shuttered curtain and a wasteland of chimneys. The street is being drained of life. A double-decker bus with gleaming windows of light passes by the corner. A woman pushes…
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Amalia Kahana-Carmon
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1966
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Before Talpiot was built the King of the Winds used to rule over the entire region: and all his ministers and servants, mighty and stubborn winds, dwelled there with him and blew over mountain and…
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S. Y. Agnon
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1941
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When word reached Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a breach remained in it—though at that time I had not yet set up doors in the…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE