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There are numerous terra-cotta plaque figurines of females, some naked and others clothed, holding disks, mostly from northern Israel and Transjordan. Many come from border towns and towns whose…
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Hazor, Land of Israel (Tel Hazor, Israel)
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Iron Age II, 9th–8th Century BCE
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Sphinxes are among the most ubiquitous images on Iron Age Levantine ivories. The sphinx combines the features of several animals; it has the head of a human, the wings of an eagle, and the body of a…
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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 necklace of beads is predominantly of orange glass but incorporates stone beads and gold spacers as well. The beads range in shape from bi-conical to cylindrical and also include larger…
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‘En Gedi, Land of Israel (‘En Gedi, Israel)
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Persian Period, 5th Century BCE
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1703
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Leonore (Rachel) de Alvaro da Costa (1669–1749), the second wife of Don Francisco Lopes Suasso, was descended from a wealthy Portuguese New Christian family who fled the Iberian Peninsula and settled…
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Artist Unknown
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (The Hague, Netherlands)
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1730s–1740s
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17th Century
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Peter Fehr
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1717
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Scenes from everyday life are scarcely to be found in these pages. Rather you will feel that you have been transported for a while to some far-off, exotic country where different flowers grow and…
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Jirí Langer
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Prague, Czechoslovak Republic (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1937
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From Hoza Street and Marszalkowska
carts were moving, Jewish carts:
furniture, tables and chairs,
suitcases, bundles
and chests, boxes and bedding,
suits and portraits,
pots, linen and wall…
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Wladyslaw Szlengel
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Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1943