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Drawing on a fragment of damaged parchment of a boat with a curved, pointed prow, stick figure people and items aboard, and lines extending from the bottom, with vowelless Hebrew lettering above and below.

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Drawing of a Boat

10th to 13th Century

Damaged and torn parchment, especially in a zig-zag pattern on the right, with fading vowelless Hebrew script, largely as a long paragraph with two smaller columns above and one below.

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Letter to Moses Maimonides

Jonathan ha-Kohen of Lunel

1195/6

Photo of Judeo-Persian script carved into a rough stone surface.

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Judeo-Persian Inscriptions (Tang-i Azao, Chisht, Afghanistan)

ca. 752

Photo of two mottled horizontal copper plates inscribed with white Mayalayam script.

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Copper Plates (Cochin)

ca. 1000

Damaged fragment of fabric with decorative patterns and symbols in dark ink and faded color, mainly red, toward the top and in one additional stripe at the bottom.

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Textile Fragment

ca. 12th Century

Narrow vertical parchment filled with vowelless Hebrew script, some with dashed lines over it, and a six-pointed star at the bottom with Hebrew script within and surrounding it and a symbol repeated in the points.

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Amulet for Judah ben Simḥah

10th to 13th Century

Damaged manuscript page with Hebrew script arranged variously in paragraphs and columns, mostly in black ink with some in brown, with holes obscuring some of the text.

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Palimpsest of a Piyyut by Yannai

10th Century

Tall, narrow parchment with vowelless Hebrew writing, with markings above some sections and a six-pointed star toward the bottom, surrounded by more text.

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Amulet for Judah ben Simḥa

9th to 12th Century

Damaged manuscript page with Hebrew script bordered by a simple frame, with additional text within and beside it.

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Amulet for Tsadok ben Hodaya

9th to 12th Century

Two facing pages containing simple humanoid drawings, one large and two smaller orthogonal to it, each with arms extended and various non-human details, decorations, and protrusions, and Hebrew scattered throughout.

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Images of Demons

10th or 11th Century

Photo of three clay teardrop-shaped objects with symbols, including a ritual candelabrum.

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Terracotta Oil Lamps

7th or 8th Century

Fragment of manuscript page with Hebrew text in black ink conforming to its irregular shape.

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An Early Manuscript Page of Sefer Yetsirah

10th Century