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Anthropoid pottery lid of a slipper coffin. It was hand-made by coil technique. The facial features were mould-made. There are faint traces of red paint. Philistine. Late Bronze Age. From Tomb 0570 at Lachish, modern-day Israel. (The British...

Lid from a Philistine terracotta coffin. Applied facial-detail and arms. 20th Dynasty, 1400-1150 BCE. From Tell Nabasha, Nile Delta, modern-day Egypt. (The British Museum, London)

Following their settlement in the Levantine coast at the beginning of 12 century BCE, the Philistines began to produce a local variant of the Mycenaean pottery known as "Mycenaean IIIC1B". Initially, this was quite simple in its designs and...

This female figurine of a tambourine player is part of a group of similar clay figurines found in Tell es-Sa'idiyeh and Tell Jemmeh, modern-day Israel. Pottery female musicians of this sort probably formed part of a toy band. Iron II, 9th...

This carved piece of ivory, in a Phoenician style, is part of large number of ivories which were found in the city of Samaria during the excavations of J. W. Crowfoot in 1931-1935 CE. They consist, for the most part, of furniture inlays...

This water vessel has a pointed base and a long narrow neck. The site of Hazor is located 5 miles south-west of Lake Huleh, north of Galilee. During the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, it had been one of the most powerful cities in the Levant...

This is Lachish Letter II, a pottery ostracon with Hebrew inscription. This ostracon is probably a fragment of a wheel-made storage jar. The so-called "Lachish Letters" are documents consisting of potsherds inscribed in black ink (known...

This is Lachish Letter I, a pottery ostracon with Hebrew inscription. This ostracon is probably a fragment of a wheel-made storage jar. The so-called "Lachish Letters" are documents consisting of potsherds inscribed in black ink (known...

A reconstruction of the Uluburun, a Bronze age vessel which was sunk sometime between 1330 and 1300 BCE off the coast of Lycia.

A finger ring made from amber. Egypt, New Kingdom Period. (British Museum, London)