14th century Haggadah, Catalonia.
Add. MS 14761, f. 24v
A family by the Seder table, from the Barcelona Haggadah, Catalonia, 1340 CE.
The Haggadah is a Jewish service book read during Seder,a ritual feast which takes place on the eve of Passover to commemorate and reenact the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
Haggadot produced in the Middle Ages were often richly illuminated. Besides biblical and midrashic images which depict episodes from the Books of Genesis and Exodus, these service books were also illustrated with scenes of ritual connected to the liturgy of the Seder feast.
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An Egyptian-German research team uncovered yet another series of colorful ceiling paintings at the Temple of Esna,Upper Egypt. The Egyptian restoration team,led by Ahmed Emam,succeeded in completely restoring and re-coloring a representation of the heavens uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/…
Representation of the zodiac sign Sagittarius.
Courtesy of Hisham El-Leithy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Professor Christian Leitz of the University of Tübingen. uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/ph…
Depiction of winged snakes and an animal with bird, crocodile and snake features.
Courtesy of Hisham El-Leithy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Professor Christian Leitz of the University of Tübingen. uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/…
New evidence for ball games in Eurasia from ca. 3000-year-old Yanghai tombs in the Turfan depression of Northwest China sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
The invention of trousers and its likely affiliation with horseback riding and mobility: A case study of late 2nd millennium BC finds from Turfan in eastern Central Asia sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Archaeologists have unearthed the world’s oldest and most complete set of Roman body armour yet on a battlefield. The entire cuirass was found at Kalkriese in northwestern Germany thetimes.co.uk/article/oldest…
The myth of Hermann remains tainted by the militant nationalism that would later be associated with Hitler.
In honor of #RoshHashanah5781 I am sharing this shofar (ram’s horn), made in the forced labor camp Skarżysko-Kamienna (belonged to German HASAG concern), in southeastern Poland, during World War II.
c. 25,000-30,000 Jews were brought here and between 18,000-23,000 perished.
Rabbi Yitzhak Finkler, the Grand Rebbe of Radoszyce, asked Moshe Winterter, also an inmate in the camp, to make a shofar for the holy observance of Rosh Hashana in 1943 (5704). In spite of the danger to his own life, Moshe created one.
On Rosh Hashanah morning, they were able to keep the mitzvah of blowing the shofar.
Moshe Winterter (photo) survived the Holocaust. You can see his shofar at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. He managed to keep the shofar with him, but when he was sent to Buchenwald, it was left behind
A wildfire has broken out near the ruins of the bronze age stronghold of Mycenae in Greece, prompting the evacuation of visitors to the archaeological site. theguardian.com/world/2020/aug…
The fire that broke out at the Mycenae archaeological side has not caused any damage to antiquities at first inspection, the Ministry of Culture says. ekathimerini.com/256394/article…
This exquisite mosaic, showing six female musicians, with two small boys dressed as cupids, on a wooden stage, once decorated the floor of an apsidal room of a Roman house at Mariamin, near Hama in Syria.
4th century AD
The women dressed in tunics long mantles, decorated with clavus, stones or gold colored parts, perform with clappers, an organ, a double flute, metal sounding bows, a cithara and castanets.
A New Approach to the Mosaic from Mariamin, Syria, with Female Musicians. Theatrical Performance or Private Banqueting Concert? Paraskevi Gavrili. academia.edu/8336539/_A_New…