Image: Canaanite relief in basat depicting a lion and a lioness at play, 14th century BC, from Beit She'an, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (27523165515)
Description: Canaanite art in this period consisted mainly of small-scale stone sculptures, ivory and bone carvings, pottery and metal figurines, and seals and jewelry. The works reflect a fusion of foreign and Canaanite elements executed in the local artistic style.This basalt relief, which stood in a large building at Beth Shean, is one of the few monumental stone-carvings of the period. It is outstanding example of Canaanitenarrative art – story-telling in pictures Publications: Chronicles of the Land, Archaeology in the Israel Museum Jerusalem, Dayagi-Mendels Michal, and Rozenberg, Silvia (eds.), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 2010 Digital presentation of this object was made possible by: The Ridgefield Foundation, New York, in memory of Henry J. and Erna D. Leir www.imj.org.il/imagine/galleries/viewItemE.asp?case=2&... Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Title: Canaanite relief in basat depicting a lion and a lioness at play, 14th century BC, from Beit She'an, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (27523165515)
Credit: Canaanite relief in basalt depicting a lion and a lioness at play, 14th century BC, from Beit She'an, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Author: Carole Raddato from Frankfurt, Germany
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