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Highlights of the Archaeology, Art, Judaica and Jewish Ethnography collections

Ngil mask Fang people, Gabon Late 19th – early 20th century	Burial mask Lambayeque, Peru 900-1100 CE	Gold-Glass Base Roman Catacomb (?), Rome, Italy 4th century CE	Gold-glass base Rome 4th century CE
Figurine of a pregnant woman - (the "Beersheba Venus") Beersheba, Israel Chalcolithic period, 4500-3500 BCE	Statuette of a calf and model shrine Tel Ashkelon, Israel Middle Canaanite period, first half of 2nd millennium BCE	Anthropoid sarcophagi Cemetery at Deir el-Balah Late Canaanite period, 14th-13th century BCE	James Turrell Space That Sees 1992
Mark Wallinger Ecce Homo 1999	Nicolas Poussin The Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem 1625-1626	Rembrandt van Rijn St. Peter in Prison (The Apostle Peter Kneeling) 1631	Statue of Hadrian Tell Shalem, Beth Shean Valley Roman period, 2nd century CE
Menorah, incense altar, and shewbread table Jewish Quarter excavations, Jerusalem, Israel Herodian period, 1st century BCE	Venus (Aphrodite) Beth Shean, Israel Roman period, 2nd century CE	Head and torso of a crucified Christ Lebanon region 12th-13th century	Itzhak Danziger Nimrod 1939
Female figurine Ashdod Israelite period, 12th century BCE	Model shrine Vicinity of Mt Nebo, Jordan Israelite period, 9th-8th century BCE	Cult stand with musicians Ashdod, Israel Late 11th-early 10th century BCE	“Priestly Benediction" on amulets Ketef Hinnom, Jerusalem Iron Age II, late 7th - early 6th century BCE
*Necklace (ogadéro)* Izmir, Turkey Late 19th century	Seder Plate from Pre-Expulsion Spain Spain Ca. 1480	*Bridal casket (cofanetto)* Northern Italy Second half of the 15th century	Glass for a burial society’s annual banquet Prague, Bohemia 1713
Torah ark curtain Kriegshaber, Germany ca. 1724	Torah crown and finials Aden, Southern Yemen Second half of the 19th century	Sukkah Fishach, South Germany Second half of the 19th century	Interior of the Horb synagogue Horb am Main, Germany 1735
Interior of the Kadavumbagam Synagogue Cochin, Southern India	Jewish bride from Sana'a, Yemen Early 20th century	Great dress (berberisca) Tetouan, Morocco 19th century	Marcel Duchamp L.H.O.O.Q. 1919/1964
René Magritte, Belgian, 1898–1967 The Castle of the Pyrenees 1959	Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) Venus Restored 1936 / editioned replica 1971	Figurine from Berekhat Ram Berekhat Ram, Golan Heights Lower Paleolithic 233,000 BP	Mask Nahal Hemar cave Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 7th millennium BCE
Paul Klee Angelus Novus 1920	Pierre le Rouge, French, 15th century after Lucas Brandis de Schass, German, 15th century Map of the Holy Land 1488	The Great Isaiah Scroll MS A (1QIsa) Qumran, Cave 1 1st century BCE	The Florilegium Scroll (4Q174) Qumran, Cave 4 Second half of the 1st century BCE