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Damaged manuscript page with Arabic text above an illustration of two lions seated among flora, facing and gesturing toward each other.

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A Lion Cub and His Lioness Mother

13th to 14th Century

A torn piece of parchment with handwritten Hebrew cut off at the top.

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A Manuscript Page from a Greek-Hebrew Glossary

11th or 12th Century

Facing, stained pages of handwritten Hebrew in two sizes, the smaller being vowelless.

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A Manuscript Page from The Book of the Differences

Mishael ben Uzziel

11th or 12th Century

Facing pages of parchment with Hebrew script.

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A Manuscript Page from a Judeo-Greek Translation of Ecclesiastes

10th to 13th Century

Worn parchment with handwritten Hebrew script.

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Judeo-Persian Commentaries

11th or 12th Century

Damaged piece of parchment with writing in Hebrew script, some of which is obscured by large holes.

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Amidah in Judeo-Arabic

Amidah

10th to 13th Century

Facing manuscript pages in Hebrew script on lightly stained and damaged parchment.

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A Page with An Abbreviated Grace After Meals, for the Sabbath

10th to 13th Century

Worn and stained facing manuscript pages in Hebrew script.

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A Geniza Copy of a Hebrew Poem: He who suspended the land over nothingness

Eleazar ben Ḥalfon ha-Kohen

After 1200

Tarnished silver coin with a stylized lion in the center, encircled by a Hebrew inscription.

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Bracteate Coin

1173–1202

Photo of the bottom part of a stone and brick room with rough, uneven walls and partial columns.

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Synagogue (Guildford, England)

1180

Photo of a broken, jagged stone slab with a Hebrew inscription, including a separated heading, decorative borders, and a simple candelabrum.

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Tombstone (Brindisi, Italy)

First Half of the 9th Century

Photo of a weathered, irregular stone tablet, mounted into a brick wall, with a Hebrew inscription conforming to its shape.

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Tombstone (Venosa, Italy)

821/2