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Lachish, Land of Israel (Tel Lachish, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB, Late 8th Century BCE
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Since chairs and beds were valuable items and not found in average homes (people usually sat on the floor and slept on mats), it is possible that terra-cotta models like this one from Lachish…
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Lachish, Land of Israel (Tel Lakhish, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB, 8th Century BCE
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Engraved tridacna (clam) shells like this one from Arad seem to have been used as cosmetic containers in the Near East and Mediterranean worlds in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE. This…
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Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
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Iron Age IIC, Second Half of 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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About a thousand items that had accumulated over time were found in the repository of Cave 25 in the Ketef Hinnom cemetery. They included jewelry, ivory and bone inlays, arrowheads, tools, and a large…
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Ketef Hinnom, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Centuries BCE
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Belonging to Eliyahu
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Late 8th Century BCE
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Belonging to Pekah. Semadar.
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Hazor, Land of Israel (Tel Hazor, Israel)
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Middle or Second Half of 8th Century BCE
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Jar of the gate.
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Kinneret, Land of Israel (Tel Kinrot, Israel)
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Late 8th Century BCE
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This comb is from a Philistine site at Ekron, but combs looked the same throughout the region.
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Ekron, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age I, 11th Century BCE
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In this detail from the left side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud, two ibexes are eating the flora of a schematic tree, all set above a striding lion. These common motifs are typically…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Iron Age IIB, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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This mirror was found in the Moringa burial cave at En Gedi; its tang would have been fitted into a handle, now missing, made of metal, ivory, or bone (see Ivory and Bone Carvings and Engraved…
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‘En Gedi, Land of Israel (‘En Gedi, Israel)
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Persian Period, 5th Century BCE