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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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Ammochostos, Cyprus
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Iron Age II, 8th–7th Century BCE
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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Early 18th Century
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Caspar Birckenholtz
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1661–1690
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The interior of the wooden Horb synagogue (completed in 1735) is richly decorated in typical East European style, which, it seems, the artist Eliezer Zusman, originally from Brody, introduced to…
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Artist Unknown
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Horb am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Marktzeuln, Germany)
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1735
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These two lecterns are from Jablonów in the southern part of eastern Galicia and may have graced the town’s wooden synagogue, which was built as early as 1674. Carved from wood, and standing on two…
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Artist Unknown
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Jabłonów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Yablonov, Ukraine)
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17th or 18th Century
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Johann Adam Boller
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1706–1732
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1750
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Paper cuts were a distinctive Jewish folk art in Eastern Europe, where rural Poles and Ukrainians also practiced the craft. Jewish paper cuts had their own techniques and imagery and were used for…
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Late 19th Century
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In the ancient Near East, images of paired lions served as guardians at building entrances and on furniture, where these two figurines from Samaria were presumably placed. According to 1 Kings 10:19…
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Samaria, Land of Israel
(Samaria, Israel)
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Iron Age IIA–IIB, 9th–8th Century BCE