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This ritual scene was carved twice on a cylindrical ivory box from Hazor, about 2.7 inches high and 2.2 inches in diameter (7 × 6 cm). A kneeling man raises his hands in prayer toward a stylized tree…
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Hazor, Land of Israel
(Tel Hazor, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age IIB, 8th Century BCE
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The front of this coin depicts an animal horn, probably a shofar (parallel lines across the horn suggest horns of rams and some other animals). If this is a shofar, it likely signifies praying to God…
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Yehud, Land of Israel
(Southern Israel, Israel)
Date:
Persian Period, 4th Century BCE
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Hazor, Land of Israel
(Tel Hazor, Israel)
Date:
First Half of 8th Century BCE
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Contributor:
Abraham Monsohn
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1900
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This black stone seal, from the City of David in Jerusalem, depicts two bearded men with their hands raised in a gesture of worship, flanking an altar or pedestal. The crescents on the altar or…
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City of David, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age IIB–IIC, Mid-8th–Mid-7th Century BCE
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The image of an ear on this coin may symbolize God as the one who hears prayers, as in passages such as Psalm 34:16, 18, and Psalm 130:2. The image is paralleled on Egyptian stelas that depict…
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Yehud, Land of Israel
(Southern Israel, Israel)
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Persian Period, 4th Century BCE
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Contributor:
Uri of Biella
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1564