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This 21-inch-high (54 cm) stand was made in the ajouré (open-spaced) style and finished to look like bronze. In the bottom register, a nude female with raised arms (a fertility goddess?) touches the…
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Taanach, Land of Israel (Tall Ti‘innik, West Bank)
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Iron Age IIA, 10th–9th Century BCE
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El Lissitzky
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1917
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6th–5th Century BCE
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This leaf-shaped ivory relief from Samaria depicts Horus as a child sitting on a lotus flower. The lotus was a symbol of regeneration, and because, in Egyptian belief, each pharaoh was considered an…
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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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This ritual scene was carved twice on a cylindrical ivory box from Hazor, about 2.7 inches high and 2.2 inches in diameter (7 × 6 cm). A kneeling man raises his hands in prayer toward a stylized tree…
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Hazor, Land of Israel (Tel Hazor, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB, 8th Century BCE
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On the front is a lily, commonly found on Yehud coins. On the back is a bird that most ornithologists consider to be a falcon; there is no consensus on its symbolism. With wings spread, this falcon…
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Yehud, Land of Israel (Southern Israel, Israel)
Date:
Persian Period, 4th Century BCE
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Aaron Wolff Herlingen of Gewitsch
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1725
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Jacob Epstein
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London, United Kingdom
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1940
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Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, was appointed to rule the short-lived Kingdom of Westphalia, which Napoleon established in Northern Germany. This medal celebrates his grant of emancipation to…
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1808
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Yehud, Land of Israel (Southern Israel, Israel)
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Persian Period, 4th Century BCE