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Furniture Inlay Depicting Ra & Horus the Child
Furniture inlay depicting the Egyptian gods Re (Ra) and Horus the child, found in Samaria. Ivory, 9th to 8th century BCE. Israel Antiquities Authority. Copyright, republished with permission.
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Stag Rhyton
This exquisite gilded silver rhyton (wine drinking horn) terminates in the forepart of a naturalistically rendered stag. Incorporating stylistic elements of Achaemenid and Seleucid traditions, it was made in Parthia (northwestern Iran, ca...
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Levantine Amber Glass Wine Cup
This beautiful amber-colored glass wine cup (diam. ca. 15 cm), with its fine horizontal grain on the edge, is an early example of moulded glass produce from the Levant (ca. 100 BCE - 100 CE; APM inv. no. 14.023). It had to be placed in a...
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A Nereid & a Sea Centaur
A fragment of a gilded silver wine jug from southern Spain (10.5 cm in height; ca. 1st cent. BCE; APM inv. no. 15.375). The image is “rolled” out to compensate for the curvature of the vase neck. The scene illustrates a Nereid riding on the...
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Ptolemaic Silver Wine Vase
Different cultural traditions met in Hellenistic Egypt, as this small silver wine vase illustrates (11 cm in height; ca. 200-150 BCE; APM inv. no. 3397). It is decorated with acanthus and lotus leaves, floral motifs from respectively Greece...
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Deer Rhyton
The ancient Persian tradition of drinking or pouring wine from rhyta (drinking horns) was eagerly adopted in Classical Greece – despite the great political enmity between Greece and Persia. In the Hellenistic Age, rhyta in different materials...
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Cleopatra in Ancient Portraiture
Ancient portraits of Cleopatra depict her assertive, but certainly not unattractive features. The wide royal headband (diadēma) and traditional wavy coiffure express her sovereignty based on her Lagid descent. Silver tetradrachm struck...
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Lady Margaret Beaufort, National Portrait Gallery
Portrait of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby at prayer.
Late 17th Century CE. Oil on Panel. 686 mm x 549 mm (27 in x 21 5/8 in).
(National Portrait Gallery)
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Assyrian Cylinder Seal Inscribed in Cuneiform Script
Though not necessarily an Israelite object, this object was uncovered around Samaria and dates to the Iron Age II (8th century BCE). It is 3.9 cm long (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem). The image is significant because it is evidence—among other...
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Titchfield Abbey
Titchfield Abbey in Hampshire, England. The abbey was founded in 1222 CE, and was where Henry VI of England (r. 1422 to 1461 CE, 1470 to 1471 CE) married Margaret of Anjou (d. 1482 CE).