Stele of Set Sapouna (Baal Zephon)
c. 1350 BCE
Rash Shamra, Ugarit (modern Syria)
Louvre Museum AO13176
A dedicatory stele by Maymi, the royal scribe, and former supervisor of the treasury, identifying the mountain/storm god Baal Zephon (Baalu Sapunu) with the Egyptian deity Set (Sutekh). Found within the temple of Baal-Hadad in Ugarit.
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Horus falcon inlay, made in Egypt in the 4th century (source).
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Bronze dagger with bone crescent pommel, Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 2033-1670 BC
from The Louvre
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Gold griffin-headed armlet from the Oxus treasure, Achaemenid Persian, 5th-4th century BC.
Currently on display at the British Museum
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Temple of Venus (Baalbek), built during the 3rd century AD.
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Giant mosaic called "Tree of Life" on the floor of the palace built by the Umayyad Caliph Hisham bin Abdulmalik in Jericho, Palestine.
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~ Model of a chariot drawn by a horse driven by two men.
Period: Late Bronze III
Place of origin: Ras Shamra = Ugarit (Western Lower Town, Tr. Banquette, pt 40)
Medium: Earthenware (yellow, white and brown glaze).
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Head of Unidentified God (Baal-Hadad?)
c. 1600 BCE
Sabkhat al-Jabbul; near Aleppo (Halab), Syria
Current Location: The Louvre - AO 10831
Source: Wikipedia
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This ancient Egyptian papyrus features a parade of satirical vignettes showing animals at work
A lion and a gazelle engaged in a friendly board game - probably the ancient Egyptian game senet.
A hyena enchanting the group with the tune from his double-flute.
A fox dutifully shepherding a flock of goats, with his belongings slung on a pole over his shoulder.
A wildcat leading a gaggle of geeseโฆ
And a baby gosling cradled lovingly in a catโs paws!
Papyrus with satirical vignettes. From Deir el-Medina (Thebes) in Egypt, around 1250โ1150 BC.
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Statue of Aramean King Hadad-Adyisi of Gozana
Sikan (Tell Fakhariyeh, Syria)
c. 850 CE
Current location: National Museum of Damascus
Source: Syrie. Mรฉmoire et Civilisation. Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Flammarion, 1993, p. 260, n o 225.
"In northeastern Syria in 1979, a farmer discovered a life-size basalt statue while he was plowing his field near Tell Fakhariyeh, ancient Sikan, on the shores of the Habur River. It was identified as a statue of the governor of Gozan named Had-Yithโi. There is a bilingual inscription in Akkadian and Aramaic. On the front of his skirt are 38 lines of Assyrian cuneiform, and on his back are 23 lines of alphabetic Aramaic. The Aramaic script has a surprisingly archaic appearance, but the artistic style and the appearance of the cuneiform signs, date to about mid-ninth century BCE. The writing presents the oldest known Aramaic inscription of substantial length. It also shows the Assyrian domination of the Habur Valley in this period. The text commemorates the installation of the statue of Had-Yithโi in the temple of the god Hadad of Sikan.
The dedication is presented twice, in both the Akkadian and Aramaic versions. In the Aramaic text, the first dedication reads:
The statue which Had-Yithโi set up before Hadad of Sikan, the canal-supervisor of heaven and earth, who showers abundance, and who gives pasture and watering places to all the lands, and who gives portions and offerings โto all the gods, his brothers; the supervisor of all the rivers, who provides for all the lands; the compassionate god whose prayer is good, [and] who dwells in Sikan, the great lord, the lord of Had-Yithโi, king of Gozan of Sassnuri, king of Gozan for the preservation of his life, for the lengthening of his days, for the abundance of his years, for the well-being of his house, for the well being of his offspring, for the well-being of his people, and for removing sickness from him, hearing his prayer and accepting of the utterance of his mouth, [Had-of Sikan]." - Source
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Votive altar to Ashtart? (Astarte?)
Fii village?, Lebanon
c. 450 BCE
Location: Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey
Source: Worldhistory.org
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Votive Altar with Egyptian Motifs
Sidon, Lebanon
c. 450 BCE
Location: Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey
Source: Worldhistory.org
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Incense Altar / Censer
Tel Beersheva (Beer-sheba, Israel)
Persian period, 6thโ4th century BCE
Painted limestone
IAA:
2009-1441
Source: Israeli Museum, Jerusalem
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Incense altar
Megiddo
Iron Age II, 9th century BCE
IAA:
I-3567
Source: Israeli Museum, Jerusalem
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A group of small, portable stone Horned Altars
Ekron, Palestine (Tel Miqne, Israel)
650 BCE.
Source: https://www.asor.org/resources/photo-collection/pid000577
Source: Dothan, Trude, and Seymour Gitin. 2008. Miqne, Tel (Ekron). In The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations
in the Holy Land 5. Edited by Ephraim Stern. Supplementary Volume. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society,
pp. 1952โ58.
See Also:
Philistine Cult and Religion According to Archaeological Evidence
by David Ben-Shlomo
Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel
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Ashtart?
Model shrine with nude goddess
Eastern Mediterranean6thโ3rd century B.C.
mfa boston
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"Astarte Plaque" from Tell es Safi
Source: Bliss & Macalister, Excavations in Palestine, London, 1902, Plate 67 No. 15s
Via: "Star of David" Blog
Tell es-Safi / Gath, Palestine (Tel Tzafit Park, Israel)
c. 800 BCE
Current location unknown, likely stolen from place of origin and lost.
Modern rendition by OP:
Some interpretative and stylistic liberties were taken in my own drawing. And despite the lack of preserved detail in the original, I very much appreciate the charm of her simple " ๊_๊ " face.
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