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This small hand, carved in stone with downward-pointing fingers, was probably apotropaic—that is, meant to protect the person buried in the tomb where it was found. It was carved on a wall between the…
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Makkedah, Land of Israel (Khirbet el-Qom, West Bank)
Date:
Iron Age II, 8th Century BCE
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Tel Dan Stela
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Dan, Land of Israel (Tel Dan, Israel)
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Late 9th Century BCE
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This panel, from a relief in Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh, complements Sennacherib’s statement, in the account of his campaign to Judah, that Hezekiah sent him “his elite troops (and) his best…
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700–681 BCE
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This tombstone of Joel ben Ze’ev, who died in 1744, is topped with a carving of an eagle. Winged griffins and eagles symbolize God’s power. Only the wealthy could afford stone markers before the…
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Smotrych, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Smotrych, Ukraine)
Date:
1744
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This tombstone for Menahem Ventura, son of Abraham Ventura, is one of only four that have survived from the Jewish cemetery in Bologna. (After the entire Jewish community was expelled from this town…
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Bologna, Papal States (Bologna, Italy)
Date:
1553
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Garden of Stones, a garden of trees growing from stone, was planted in 2003 by Goldsworthy, Holocaust survivors, and their families at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on a second-story rooftop. The…
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Andy Goldsworthy
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2003
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The (foreign) chieftains lie prostrate, saying “Peace.” Not one lifts his head among the Nine Bows.
Libya is captured, while Hatti is pacified.
Canaan is plundered, Ashkelon is carried off, and Gezer…
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ca. 1208 BCE
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I am Mesha son of Chemoshyat king of Moab, the Di-bonite. My father reigned over Moab thirty years and I reigned after my father.
And I built this high place for Chemosh in the “citadel,” a high place…
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ca. 835 BCE
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This is [the burial of Sheban]yahu, the steward of the palace. There is no silver or gold here, only his bones and the bones of his spouse. Cursed be the man who will open this.
Translated by Anson F…
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Siloam, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 700 CE
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This tombstone of Isaac ben Ḥayim, who died in 1728, includes (at the top) a pair of deer and a pair of lions, animal carvings that often appeared on Jewish tombstones in Eastern Europe. They…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Polonne, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Polonne, Ukraine)
Date:
1728