Shadai’a (Dedicatory Plaque)

Dost thou sleep, my brother Abel, That thou art so wonderfully fair? Never have I seen thee As beautiful before. Does the beauty lie in my ax, Or is it, perhaps, in thee? Before the day is done, Spe…

This and the next several ivories come from the approximately twelve thousand ivory pieces and fragments that were found in the royal compound in the city of Samaria, capital of the Northern Kingdom…