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09 IVORY ACROPOLIS IVORY SPHINX.jpg
Yale universityImage database Title / Description: Samaria-Sebaste:09 ivory Acropolis Ivory SphinxLocation / Provenance: Samaria, IsraelDate: 9th/8th c. BCEObject Location: The Israel Museum and The Rockefeller Museum, JerusalemObject Type: image - sculptureCommentary: Part of the famous Samaria Ivories, one of the most important collection of miniature art in Israel (found by the Harvard Expedition in the royal palace on top of the acropolis and dating to the time around 900 BCE), the sphinx displays strong Egyptian, Syrian and Phoenician influence and attests to the "internationality" of the ruling class of the kingdom of Israel "lying on beds inlaid with ivory" (Amos 6,4; cf. 1Kg 22,39).Author of Commentary:Jürgen Zangenberg, Samuel ThomasSource: Michael Fox slide collection.Acknowledgements: N.Avigad, Samaria (City), NEAEHL 4 (1993), 1300-1310; J.W.Crowfoot, G.M.Crowfoot, Early Ivories from
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