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Ketubah (Damascus)

This ketubah (marriage contract) from Damascus, signed on the 21st of Shevat 5466, or February 5, 1706, features a text set within an arch, and flanked on both sides and above with green and orange…

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Seal with depiction of three people holding up T-shaped objects.

Dancers on a Seal from Abel Beth Maacah

Seals from numerous sites in ancient Israel and elsewhere in the Levant have schematic depictions of two or three people with hands linked or raised, reaching toward each other. All the members of the…

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Drawing of interior of bowl with scene of seated woman and three female musicians playing a double pipe, lyre, and a frame drum or cymbals, and several women holding hands and dancing.

Bronze Bowl with Musicians

Bronze bowl with musicians, Cyprus, late 9th or early 8th century BCE. The engraved scene shows musicians and dancers. In this bronze bowl, five inches in diameter, three female musicians are playing…

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