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Pages in category "Israelite and Jewish archaeological artifacts" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Amir Drori (1937–2005), founder of the Israel Antiquities Authority in 1990; Israel Finkelstein (1949–present), known for his rejection of the United Monarchy as fact, proposed a later date for Iron Age Israelite archaeology under the Low Chronology; Amnon Ben-Tor (1935–present), author of Archaeology of Ancient Israel, noted critic of ...
Ancient Jewish art, is art created by Jews in both the Land of Israel and in the Diaspora prior to the Middle Ages. It features symbolic or figurative motifs often influenced by biblical themes, religious symbols, and the dominant cultures of the time, including Egyptian , Hellenistic , and Roman art .
Another artifact, the Jehoash Inscription, which first came to notice in 2003, contains a 15-line description of King Jehoash's ninth-century BCE restoration of the Temple. Its authenticity was called into question by a report by the Israel Antiquities Authority, which said that the surface patina contained microfossils of foraminifera. As ...
A 1,700-year-old oil lamp dating to the Late Roman Empire was found during a dig near the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Jerusalem pilgrim road: Tell ej-Judeideh [92] Tel Kabri: Tell al-Qahweh [93] Kebara Cave [94] Kebara 2: Kfar Giladi: Kfar HaHoresh: Kafr 'Inan: Kfar Monash: Kfar Monash Hoard: Kafr Kanna: Kafr Yasif: Khirbat al-Minya: Ayn Minyat Hisham, Hurvat Minim Khirbet Beit Lei: Beth Loya [95] Khirbat Al-Burj: Burj Binyamina Khirbet Ibziq: Bezek Khirbet ...
A nine-branched menorah is also a symbol closely associated with the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. According to the Talmud, after the Seleucid desecration of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, there was only enough sealed (and therefore not desecrated) consecrated olive oil left to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day. Miraculously, the ...
Radiocarbon dating tests on the artifact have shown that it dates between 980 and 1146 AD. Shapira Scroll, leather strips containing a somewhat different text of the Ten Commandments, belonging to Moses Wilhelm Shapira, a Jerusalem antiquities dealer. Widely discredited following its 1883 release, resulting in Shapira's suicide.