Prehistory


Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age.



5 subcategories
Bronze Age

BRONZE AGE

Celtic

CELTIC

Iron Age

IRON AGE

Neolithic (Young Stone Age)

NEOLITHIC (YOUNG STONE AGE)

Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age)

PALAEOLITHIC (OLD STONE AGE)

1,733 photos
Decorated fragment of a large vase                     
with ostriches and gazelles.                           
From the temple at Lachish,                            
Late Bronze Age, 15th-13th BCE                         
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Decorated fragment of a large vase with ostriches and gazel...

Decorated rim of a large vase: ostriches               
picking at a palm tree.                                
From the temple at Lachish.                            
Late Bronze Age, 15th-13th BCE                         
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Decorated rim of a large vase: ostriches picking at a palm tree....

Lyre player on a painted jar from Megiddo.             
Iron Age, around 1200 - 1000 BCE                       
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Lyre player on a painted jar from Megiddo. Iron Age, around 1200 -...

Lyre player on a painted jar from Megiddo,             
in the foreground a pair of bronze cymbals.            
Iron Age, 1200 - 1000 BCE                              
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Lyre player on a painted jar from Megiddo, in the foreground a pair...

Small terracotta vessels                               
H: 3-5 cm
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Small terracotta vessels H: 3-5 cm

Two wine jars from Jerusalem.                          
900-600 BCE
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Two wine jars from Jerusalem. 900-600 BCE

Two Egyptian unguent vases from Jerusalem.             
Faience, Middle Bronze, 19th-17th BCE
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Two Egyptian unguent vases from Jerusalem. Faience, Middle Bronze,...

Faience bowl decorated with the Egyptian Ouadjet-eye,  
a protective symbol, in Egyptian myth the eye of       
the God Horus, injured by Seth, healed by Toth.        
                                                       
From Lachish, 15th-13th BCE
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Faience bowl decorated with the Egyptian Ouadjet-eye, a protective symbol, in...

Two fighting bulls, detail from a small jug.
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Two fighting bulls, detail from a small jug.

Painted bowl with seven handles.                       
Iron Age II, 1200-1000 BCE
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Painted bowl with seven handles. Iron Age II, 1200-1000 B...

Philistine "beer-jug", local Canaanite type with       
one handle and a snout with six holes. Geometric       
ornaments. From Tel Eitun near Beth Gobrin, Israel.    
Terracotta, H: 22 cm                                   
Inv. K-67
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Philistine "beer-jug", local Canaanite type with one handle and a snout w...

Cypriot bull of the base ring group, 14th-13th BCE.    
To the Jews, the bull was the most precious sacrificial
animal, a sacrifice which could exculpate a High priest
while a ram was sufficient to atone for the sins       
of a ruler. Import from Cyprus. H: 19,5 cm  Inv. H-495
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Cypriot bull of the base ring group, 14th-13th BCE. To the Jews, the bull wa...