THE MATERIAL CULTURE

ORGANIZED BY TOPICS

DRESS

CLOTHING

• Dress of Asiatics from Tomb of Rek-mi-ra (New Kingdom)
• Dress of Sea People (New Kingdom)
• Long dress of King Jehu (841/840 B.C.E.)
• Long dress of captives from seige of Lachish (701 B.C.E.)

HEADDRESSES

• Gold foil frontlets sown into headdresses
• Anthropoid coffin (Beth Shan) with frontlets
• Depiction of Asiatics wearing frontlets (New Kingdom)
• Depiction of feather headdress of the Sea People (New Kingdom)
• Cap worn by Israelite King Jehu (840/841 B.C.E.)
• Cap worn by captives from seige of Lachish (701 B.C.E.)

ADORNMENT ITEMS

• Toggle pins for fastening garments in the Middle and Late Bronze Age
• Fibula for fastening garments (Iron Age)
• Beads worn around the neck or wrist
• Earrings of the Late Bronze and Iron Age
• Rings of the Late Bronze and Iron Age
• Scarabs of the Middle Bronze, Late Bronze and Iron Ages worn on fingers or as amulets around the neck
• Bangles worn as armlets or anklets

TOILETRY ITEMS

• Inlays for cosmetic boxes, Middle Bronze II
• Combs, Middle Bronze
• Combs, cosmetic spoons and inlay boxes, Late Bronze Age
• Cosmetic Palettes, Iron II

ENTERTAINMENT AND ART

ARTS AND CRAFTS

• Carving of ivory in the Late Bronze and Iron Age
• Manufacturing of Bronze vessels

GAMES AND GAMEBOARDS

• Dice, Games, and gameboards of the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze Age

MUSIC AND DANCE/PROCESSIONALS

• Musical instruments of the Late Bronze and Iron Age
• Evidence of Professional singers in Late Bronze Age
• Life size clay masks of Late Bronze and Iron Age

TOYS

• Toy ? animals of Iron Age
• Dolls ? or Religious figurines of the Iron Age

FUNERARY RITES AND BURIALS

TREATMENT OF THE CORPSE

• Large Bone piles and other evidence of secondary burial in the Middle Bronze and Iron Age
• Skeletons lying in the supine position placed in graves, cists and anthropoid coffins in the Late Bronze and Iron Age
• Evidence of mummification in bitumen
• Cremation urn and pyre burials in the Iron Age

GRAVE GOODS

• Presence of adornment items and weapons in burials
• Presence of games and games boards in Late Bronze and early Iron Age burials
• Evidence of wine and libation offerings in Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age

FOOD

INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE

• Alabaster carving at or near Beth Shan in the Middle and Late Bronze Age
• Production of Bronze vessels at or near Tell es-Sa'idiyeh
• Ceramic, weaving and viticulture in the Iron Age
• Storage complexes at a number of Iron Age sites

SHELTER

HOUSES AND PALACES

• Courtyard Houses of the Middle Bronze II and Late Bronze Age
• Houses of the Iron Age
• Walk Through of Pillared Houses at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh

TEMPLES AND SHRINES

• Migdol Temple in Middle Bronze II
• Late Bronze Age Temples at Beth Shan, Lachish and Hazor
• Iron Age temples and shrines

WARFARE

FORTIFICATION LINES

• Fortification lines of the Middle Bronze II, Late Bronze and
• Iron Age

GATES

• Gates of the Middle Bronze II, Late Bronze Age and Iron Age

FORTS

• Migdol Fort at Beth Shan
• Fortresses, Iron Age

WATER SYSTEMS

• Development of elaborate water systems in the Iron Age

WEAPONS

• Weapons of the Middle Bronze I, Middle Bronze II, Late Bronze andIron Age

SPECIAL TOPICS

• On seige of Lachish (701 B.C.E.)