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Antiquity


Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Imperial Roman Period, Ancient Middle East.



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Ancient Egypt

ANCIENT EGYPT

Ancient Greece

ANCIENT GREECE

Ancient Israel

ANCIENT ISRAEL

Ancient Jordan

ANCIENT JORDAN

Ancient Middle East

ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST

Imperial Roman Period

IMPERIAL ROMAN PERIOD

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Two execration figures covered with hieratic execration texts. 12th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom
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Two execration figures covered with hieratic execration...

List of proper names, among them that of a landowner. Limestone tablet with Sumerian pictographic script. The symbol of the hand designates the proprietor. End 4th mill., proto-urban period,from Mesopotamia. Limestone, 5 x 4.2 cm - AO 19936
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List of proper names, among them that of a landowner. Limestone tablet with Su...

Bill of sale of a field and one house paid in silver. Terracotta tablet with Sumerian writing (around 2550 BCE) AO 3766
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Bill of sale of a field and one house paid in silver...

Gift of a house (1 sar 1/2 i.e. 54 m2) and a male slave with list of witnesses on the last three lines. Terracotta tablet, period of king Shurrupak. (2550 BCE) Pre-Sargonic 8 x 8 x 2 cm - AO 3765
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Gift of a house (1 sar 1/2 i.e. 54 m2) and a male slave with list of witne...

Astrological tablet from Warka. Between the cuneiform writing a star, a raven and a woman. Seleucide period (3rd-1st BCE) Clay, 11,5 x 19 cm AO 6448
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Astrological tablet from Warka. Between the cuneiform writing a star, a raven...

Great Sumerian hymn: Lamentation on the ruins of Ur. Inscription on clay 24.5 x 13.6 cm AO 6446
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Great Sumerian hymn: Lamentation on the ruins...

Treaty concluded after the battle of Kadesh between Pharaoh Ramses II and the Hittite King Muvatallish. Battle of Kadesh 1282 BCE, treaty probably 1272 BCE. Fragment of a terracotta tablet in Akkadian language, the diplomatic language of the 13th BCE.
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Treaty concluded after the battle of Kadesh between Pharaoh Ramses II and th...

Astrologicl calendar from Uruk, Mesopotamia. Terracotta tablet
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Astrologicl calendar from Uruk, Mesopotamia....

Part of a Hebrew alphabet tablet with ten letters, Shin to R, found near Hebron, Israel. Stone, Early Iron Age II 3 x 1.7 x 4.2 cm - Inv. H 815
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Part of a Hebrew alphabet tablet with ten letters, Shin t...

Brown jasper seal with Hebrew inscription: Lidnihu son of Nadnihu. Found near Jerusalem. (800-700 BCE) Iron Age I 1.8 x 1.2 x 2.1 cm Inv. R.E.H. 105
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Brown jasper seal with Hebrew inscription: Lidnihu son of Nadnihu....

Ostracon (potsherd) with Hebrew inscription: Your son Yehukal ... From Arad, Israel.
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Ostracon (potsherd) with Hebrew inscription: Your son Ye...

Letter from the commander of the fortress of Lachish, announcing the fall to Syrian troops of Aseka, another outpost on the road to Jerusalem. A sentence reads: "I do not see the lights of Aseka anymore ..." Clay sherd covered with reed-pen and carbon ink writing.
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Letter from the commander of the fortress of Lachish, announcing the fall to...