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Statue of an Ammonite King
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Statue of an Ammonite King

Hard greystone statue of an Ammonite king. Both hands of this male figure are clenched. He wears an Egyptian-style atef crown and a shawl over a garment in the Aramaic-Syrian tradition. Both legs stand on a pedestal of the same stone type...
Ammonite Pottery Bottle
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Ammonite Pottery Bottle

Carrot-shaped bottle, burnished and decorated with horizontal bands. This characteristic type was probably made for special liquids, such as cosmetics or medicinal oils. Locally made in an Assyrian form, such bottles link up with the general...
Transportation or Storage Jar from Madaba
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Transportation or Storage Jar from Madaba

Large jar built up with coils of clay and then trimmed upside down on the wheel. Its base is tapered making the form similar to a plumb-bob when hanged by the handles. This type of jar was commonly associated with administrative and trade...
Atarghatis and Hadad from Khirbet et-Tannur
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Atarghatis and Hadad from Khirbet et-Tannur

Atarghatis is seated on a throne and a large head of the bearded Hadad, sculpted in limestone in the Oriental Syrian style, is beside her. Both came from a group of sculptures that decorated and adorned the Nabataean temple at Khirbet et-Tannur...
Head of Marcus Aurelius from Petra
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Head of Marcus Aurelius from Petra

Marble portrait of the Roman Emperor who reigned from 161 to 180 CE. His statues were raised in cities across the Roman Empire; this head was found in the exedra of Qasr al-Bint Temple at Petra. An inscription reveals that it was set there...
Plaster Figurine from Khirbet as-Samra
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Plaster Figurine from Khirbet as-Samra

Plaster figurines were usually made in human and animal forms. Most of them depicted a female figure with raised arms, dressed in a long garment, and often decorated with a small mirror; very few had depicted male figures. These figurines...
Cypro-Phoenician Pottery Vessel
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Cypro-Phoenician Pottery Vessel

This vessel belongs to a ceramic tradition known as "black-on-red" ware, the most ubiquitous of the Iron Age's Cypro-Phoenician exports. Iron Age II, 1000-539 BCE. From Amman, Jordan. (The Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan).
Greek Black-Glazed Pottery
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Greek Black-Glazed Pottery

Although known by this term, the pottery is not technically glazed. It evolved from the Greek Attic "Red-on-Black" pottery, but the images of heroes and gods that made the Attic vases famous were replaced by vegetal and simple geometric motifs...
Black-Glazed Pottery from Jordan
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Black-Glazed Pottery from Jordan

Black-glazed pottery from Jordan. Although known by this term, the pottery is not technically glazed. It evolved from the Greek Attic "Red-on-Black" pottery, but the images of heroes and gods that made the Attic vases famous were replaced...
Roman Imperial Coinage
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Roman Imperial Coinage

1. Denarius of Emperor Nero (reigned 54-68 CE) of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The silver content of the coin (fineness) is >.92. Nero’s jowly face, gazing to the right, is recognizable, but barely. This coin was clipped around the edges...
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