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Highlights of the Archaeology, Fine Arts, Jewish Art and Life collections

Mask Nahal Hemar cave Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 7th millennium BCE	Figurine from Berekhat Ram Berekhat Ram, Golan Heights Lower Paleolithic 233,000 BP	Paul Klee Angelus Novus	Pierre le Rouge, French, 15th century after Lucas Brandis de Schass, German, 15th century Map of the Holy Land
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	Ngil society mask Fang people, Gabon Late 19th – early 20th century	Gold-glass base Rome 4th century CE
The calf and its shrine Ashkelon Middle Canaanite period, 16th century BCE	Anthropoid sarcophagi Cemetery at Deir el-Balah Late Canaanite period, 14th-13th century BCE	James Turrell Space That Sees	Mark Wallinger Ecce Homo
Rembrandt van Rijn St. Peter in Prison (The Apostle Peter Kneeling)	Nicolas Poussin The Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem 1625–26	Graffito with temple vessels Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem Herodian period, 1st century BCE	Statue of the Emperor Hadrian Camp of the Sixth Roman Legion Tel Shalem, Beth Shean Valley Roman period, 117-138 CE
Statue of Aphrodite Beth Shean Roman period, 2nd century CE	Crucified Christ Southern Lebanon(?) Crusader period, late 12th - early 13th century	Itzhak Danziger Nimrod	Female figurine Ashdod Iron Age I, 12th century BCE
“Priestly Benediction” on amulets Ketef Hinnom, Jerusalem 6th century BCE	Model shrine Trans-Jordan Iron Age II, 9th-8th century BCE	A musical ensemble on a ritual stand Ashdod Iron Age I, late 11th – early 10th century BCE	Elijah's chair 1916-25 Bezalel School, Jerusalem Design: Ze’ev Raban, Israeli, born Poland, 1890–1970
*Necklace (ogadéro)* Izmir, Turkey Late 19th century	Glass for a burial society’s annual banquet Prague, Bohemia	*Bridal casket (cofanetto)* Northern Italy Second half of the 15th century	Seder Plate from Pre-Expulsion Spain Spain Ca. 1480
Sukkah Fishach, Southern Germany Second half of the 19th century	Torah crown and finials Aden, Southern Yemen Second half of the 19th century	The Rothschild Miscellany Veneto, Northern Italy ca. 1460-80 Unidentified scribe	Interior of the Horb synagogue Horb am Main, Germany Artist: Eliezer Sussman of Brody
Interior of the Kadavumbagam synagogue Cochin, Southern India Date of construction: 1539–44 Wooden decoration: 17th–18th centuries	Jewish bride from Sana'a, Yemen Early 20th century	Torah ark curtain Kriegshaber, Germany ca. 1724 Embroiderer: Elkana Schatz Naumberg of Fürth	*Great dress (berberisca)* Tétouan, Morocco 19th century
Marcel Duchamp L.H.O.O.Q. 1919/1964	René Magritte The Castle of the Pyrenees	Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) Venus Restored 1936 / editioned replica 1971