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Juglet containing clay balls bearing seal impressions with names. Next to it two stone weights (early 6th BC) from Lachish, Israel.
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Juglet containing clay balls bearing seal impressions with names. Next to it t...

Sennacherib's prism (691 BCE), describing the third campaign of the king to reassert Assyrian hegemony over Syria and Canaan. It mentions among others Hezekiah, King of Judah.
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Sennacherib's prism (691 BCE), describing the third campaign of the king to rea...

Hebrew ostracon (potsherd). A reaper complains before the governor that an officer had unjustly confiscated his garment. From Mesad Hashavjahu, Israel (late 7th BCE)
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Hebrew ostracon (potsherd). A reaper complains before the gov...

Hebrew inscription: "of the place of trumpeting". From the outer walls of the Temple Mount, Jerusalem (2nd half 1st BCE) Herodian Period.
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Hebrew inscription: "of the place of trumpeting". From the outer walls of...

Drawing of 2 doves and inscription: CORBAN (sacrifice) On a fragment of a stone jar found at the west corner of the Temple walls. Jar served a religious purpose. Herodian Period (1st BCE)
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Drawing of 2 doves and inscription: CORBAN (sacrifice) On a fragment of a stone...

Inscription dedicated to and honouring Emperor Tiberius, with the name of Pontius Pilate, prefect of Judea (26-36 CE). Stone, from Caesarea, Israel
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Inscription dedicated to and honouring Emperor Tiberius, with t...

A few lines (in Hebrew square writing) from one of the two scrolls of Isaiah found in cave 1 of Qumran, north-west of the Dead Sea. The text seems to interpret Isaiah's apocalyptic visions as predicting events at the time of the Essene Community (130-68 BCE).
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A few lines (in Hebrew square writing) from one of the two scrolls of Isai...

Nail driven through the bones in the foot of a 25 year old man, found in a grave of the Herodian Period in Givat ha-Mivtar, north-east of Jerusalem, Extra Muros (outside the walls).
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Nail driven through the bones in the foot of a 25 year old man, found...

Drawing of a menorah engraved into a lime floor upon a thick layer of plaster, in a house opposite the Temple of Jerusalem (around 40 BCE), burnt at the destruction of the 2nd Temple in 70 CE.
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Drawing of a menorah engraved into a lime floor upon a thick layer of pl...

Drawing of a menorah (height 20 cm) on a stone. Probably the oldest representation of a Temple Menorah. The 2nd Temple was destroyed in 70 CE.
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Drawing of a menorah (height 20 cm) on a stone. Probably the oldest repr...

Pottery sherd decorated with menorah and shofar horn, from Beit-Natif (3rd-4th).
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Pottery sherd decorated with menorah and shofar horn, from Beit-N...

Stone capital showing a menorah carved in relief among acanthus leaves. From a synagogue at Caesarea, Israel
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Stone capital showing a menorah carved in relief among acanthus...