EditorialAlabaster vase with handles ending in ibis-heads. From Beth-Shean. Many vessels made of alabster were found in Egyptian tombs and it is likely that the Jews brought the art of alabaster-carving with them from Egypt.
EditorialEgypt. Stele of Seti I. Beth-Shean. 1289-1278 B.C. Basalt. Commemorates the king's victory in the Military expedition into Canaan. The pharaoh (left), crowned with an Uraeus, presents the libation and incense to the sun god Re-Harakhty. Relief. 19th Dy...
EditorialFunerary bust of a woman. Limestone. From Beth Shean, Israel. Roman period. 3rd-4th century AD. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.
EditorialAlabaster vase with handles ending in ibis-heads. From Beth-Shean. Many vessels made of alabster were found in Egyptian tombs and it is likely that the Jews brought the art of alabaster-carving with them from Egypt.
EditorialEgypt. Stele of Seti I. Beth-Shean. 1289-1278 B.C. Basalt. Commemorates the king's victory in the Military expedition into Canaan. The pharaoh (left), crowned with an Uraeus, presents the libation and incense to the sun god Re-Harakhty. Relief. 19th Dy...
EditorialEgypt. Stele of Seti I. Beth-Shean. 1289-1278 B.C. Basalt. Commemorates the king's victory in the Military expedition into Canaan. The pharaoh (left), crowned with an Uraeus, presents the libation and incense to the sun god Re-Harakhty. Relief. 19th Dy...
EditorialFunerary bust of a woman. Limestone. From Beth Shean, Israel. Roman period. 3rd-4th century AD. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.
EditorialAlabaster vase with handles ending in ibis-heads. From Beth-Shean. Many vessels made of alabster were found in Egyptian tombs and it is likely that the Jews brought the art of alabaster-carving with them from Egypt.
EditorialOverall view of Beth Shean (Scythopolis); in the back-ground Tel Beth-Shean, a stone-age mound which was settled in the 5th millenium. The colonnade stands on Palladius street, named after a Byzantine governor.