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Decorated rim of a large vase: ostriches picking at a palm tree. From the temple at Lachish. Late Bronze Age, 15th-13th BCE See 08-05-13/8
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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 See 08-05-13/11
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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 See 08-05-13/10
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Lyre player on a painted jar from Megiddo, in the foreground a pair...

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...

Clay vessel in the form of a bull, 15th-13th. 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. From a tomb in Gezer, Israel.
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Clay vessel in the form of a bull, 15th-13th. To the Jews, the bull wa...

Two zoomorphic vessels, one in the shape of a donkey, the other a composite figure of lion and bull. Around 1000 BCE
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Two zoomorphic vessels, one in the shape of a donkey, the other a composite fi...

Two zoomorphic vases, or vases in form of a waterskin. 1000-800 BCE
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Two zoomorphic vases, or vases in form of a waterskin. 1000-800 BCE

Fragment of a spinning bowl or spinning frame, used to twist and wind yarn.
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Fragment of a spinning bowl or spinning frame, used to twist and wind y...