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

Burial Society glass Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic 1713	Passover plate Spain Ca. 1480	*Bridal casket (cofanetto)* North Italy, Italy Late 15th century	The Great Isaiah Scroll MS A (1QIsa) Qumran, Cave 1 1st century BCE
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669 St. Peter in Prison (The Apostle Peter Kneeling) 1631	Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) Venus Restored 1936/1971	Ren� Magritte The Castle of the Pyrenees (La Ch�teau des Pyrenees) 1959	Figurine from Berekhat Ram Berekhat Ram, Golan Heights Lower Paleolithic 233,000 BP
Mask Nahal Hemar cave Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 7th millennium BCE	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
Ashdoda figurine Ashdod, Israel Israelite period, 12th century BCE	Model shrine Vicinity of Mt Nebo, Jordan Israelite period, 9th-8th century BCE	Cult stand with musicians Ashdod, Israel Israelite period, late 11th-early 10th century BCE	The Priestly Benediction on a silver amulet Jerusalem: Ketef Hinnom, Israel Israelite period, late 7th century BCE
Statue of Hadrian Tell Shalem, Beth Shean Valley Roman period, 2nd century CE	Gold-Glass Base Roman Catacomb (?), Rome, Italy 4th century CE	Synagogue interior from Horb am Main Germany 1735	Mark Wallinger, British, born 1959 Ecce Homo 1999
Nicolas Poussin, French, also active Rome, 1594-1665 The Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem 1625-1626	Marcel Duchamp L.H.O.O.Q. 1919/1964	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
James Turrell, American, born 1943 Space That Sees 1992	Burial mask Lambayeque (Sican), Peru 900-1100 CE	Interior of the Kadavumbagam Synagogue Cochin, Kerala State, India 1539-1544 16th-18th century	Torah ark curtain (parokhet) Kriegshaber, Bavaria, Germany 1723-1724
Sukkah Fishach, South Germany Second half of the 19th century	Jewish bride from Yemen San'a, North Yemen, Yemen Early 20th century	Great dress (berberisca) Tetouan, Morocco 19th century	*Necklace (ogad�ro)* Izmir, Turkey Late 19th century
Menorah, incense altar, and shewbread table Jewish Quarter excavations, Jerusalem, Israel Herodian period, 1st century BCE	Head and torso of a crucified Christ Lebanon region 12th-13th centuries	Ngil mask Fang, Gabon, West Africa Late 19th century-early 20th century	Venus (Aphrodite) Beth Shean, Israel Roman period, 2nd century CE
Gold-glass base Rome 4th century CE	Torah crown and finials Aden, Southern Yemen Second half of the 19th century	Itzhak Danziger, Israeli, born Germany, 1916-1977 Nimrod 1939