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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 .
The Trumpeting Place inscription, a stone (2.43×1 m) with Hebrew writing "To the Trumpeting Place" uncovered during archaeological excavations by Benjamin Mazar at the southern foot of the Temple Mount once marked the place where a priest stood to blow a trumpet ushering in the Sabbath in the Herodian period.
This category lists articles archaeological artifacts from ancient Israel, the Second Temple period, and the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods in the Land of Israel Pages in category "Israelite and Jewish archaeological artifacts"
Arad ostraca – the "House of Yahweh" ostracon is an ancient pottery fragment discovered at Tel Arad probably referring to the Temple at Jerusalem. [63] Elephantine papyri – ancient Jewish papyri dating to the 5th century BC, name three persons mentioned in Nehemiah: Darius II, Sanballat the Horonite and Johanan the high priest.
A road was cut through the ancient historic Jewish graveyard on the Mount of Olives, and tens of thousands of tombstones, some dating from as early as 1 BCE, were torn out, broken or used as flagstones, steps and building materials in Jordanian military installations. [137] On 10 June 1967, the Israeli army razed the Mughrabi Quarter in ...
Katzrin ancient village and synagogue: Laura of Euthymius: Tel Lachish [102] Legio: Lod: Lyyda Lod Mosaic: Lotz Cisterns: Borot Loz Magdala: Migdal Migdal Synagogue, Magdala stone: Maon Synagogue: Maoz Haim Synagogue: Mampsis: Mamshit, Memphis Mamre: Ramat el-Khalil Manot Cave: Maresha [60]
The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Archaeology Wing tells the story of the ancient Land of Israel, home to peoples of different cultures and faiths, using unique examples from the museum's collection of Holy Land archaeology, the foremost holding in the world. Organized chronologically, from prehistory through the Ottoman Empire, the transformed ...
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (formerly the Judah L. Magnes Museum) is an extensive collection of Jewish history, art, and culture at the University of California, Berkeley. The Magnes Collection comprises more than 30,000 Jewish artifacts and manuscripts, the third largest collection of its kind in the United States. [4]