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This object is an ivory furniture inlay depicting a crouching lion. It was excavated from Samaria and dates to the Iron Age II (9th–8th century BCE). It has a height of 3.7 cm and a length of 6.4 cm. (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) ©The...

Coin portraits in particular show how Cleopatra wanted to be presented. Though varied in their facial features, her portraits emphasize her position of power as Ptolemaic queen. Sculptural portrait attributed to Cleopatra (Gregorian Profane...

This object is pedestal for the figure of a deity. It was excavated from Taanach and dates to the Iron Age I (10th century BCE). It has a height of 53.7 cm, a width of 22 cm, and a length of 24.5 cm. (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) ©The...

This object is an ivory furniture inlay depicting an enthroned figure. It was excavated from Samaria and dates to the Iron Age II (9th–8th century BCE). It has a width of 5.2 cm and a length of 9 cm. (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) ©The...

This object is an ivory furniture inlay depicting palmettes, ornamental palm leaves. It was excavated from Samaria and dates to the Iron Age II (9th–8th century BCE). It has a height of 17.6 cm and a length of 3.4 cm. (The Israel Museum...

This object is an ivory furniture inlay depicting a striding sphinx. It was excavated from Samaria and dates to the Iron Age II (9th–8th century BCE). It has a length of 7.5 cm and a width of 7 cm. (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) ©The Israel...

This object is an ivory furniture inlay depicting a striding sphinx. It was excavated from Samaria and dates to the Iron Age II (9th–8th century BCE). It has a length of 3.3 cm and a width of 2.6 cm. (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) ©The...

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.

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...

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...