Showing Results 41 - 50 of 200
Restricted
Image
From Jerusalem, this seal is made of bone. The fish image, a motif known only from Hebrew seals, suggests plenty and fertility (cf. Genesis 48:16) and may also allude to the life-giving nature of…
Places:
Jerusalem, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age IIB–IIC, 7th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Images of this type—with a male figure holding two caprids (probably ibexes) by the horns—are dubbed “master of the animals” and are seen throughout the ancient world. They often represent a female…
Places:
Dan, Land of Israel
(Tel Dan, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age IIA, Late 10th–Early 9th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Ellen Auerbach
Places:
Deer Isle, United States of America
Date:
1940
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
In this detail from the left side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud, two ibexes are eating the flora of a schematic tree, all set above a striding lion. These common motifs are typically…
Places:
Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel
(Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
Date:
Iron Age IIB, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Contributor:
Batia Lichansky
Places:
Date:
1965–1968
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Garry Winogrand
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1969
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Leon Levinstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1970
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Eric Bulatov
Date:
1971–2000
Categories:
Restricted
Text
God relented. And the whispered prayers of the toiler returned not empty, and the tears of the sower reached to heaven.
With great, with manifold mercy the windows of heaven were flung open, flung…
Contributor:
Moshe Stavi
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1930
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Date:
669–627 BCE