The 181 Artworks exhibited in Israel

This hoard, found in a jar, included a necklace of gold beads made with the beating and filigree techniques and decorated with granulation; silver jewelry, including earrings and amuletic pendants decorated with the niello technique featuring birds, scrolls, and inscriptions; and strands of semiprec...

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Likenesses of the deceased were commonly erected over tombs throughout the Greco-Roman world. In the Land of Israel, however, the phenomenon only appears in Beth Shean and Samaria. The statues fuse Roman, Eastern, and local traditions: while the hairstyles, the clothing, and the use of the bust form...

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Chancel screens, made of marble or stone, separated the congregation from the Bema. Decorated with carved frames surrounding a central motif, they were held in place by grooves that ran along the sides of posts at the outer edge of the bema. All the chancel screens have a carved border, but the moti...

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Images of a small shrine with a conch-shaped ceiling, flanked by menorahs and Temple implements, became a symbol of the Temple that had been destroyed and was an expression of the yearning for redemption. These images, or parts of them, were rendered on the stone elements of buildings and on everyda...

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These two silver amulets bear the oldest copies of biblical text known to us today. They are some five hundred years older than the Dead Sea Scrolls. The amulets, inscribed with ancient Hebrew script, were found rolled into tiny scrolls in a burial cave in Jerusalem. They were incised with a sharp, ...

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This object, from the Jewish catacombs of Rome, is made from two layers of translucent glass encasing gold leaf. It is actually the base of a vessel that was probably used in funerary banquets. After the walls of the vessel were intentionally broken, the base was affixed near a burial niche as a tom...

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The Egyptian king was perceived as the earthly manifestation of the god Horus, son of Osiris, a descendant of the creator god and the legitimate heir to the throne. According to Egyptian myth, Osiris was brutally murdered by his brother Seth, but was revived through the magical powers of his loving ...

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