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Sale of historic letters in archive fetches 850,000 pounds
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ONE of Britain's most important private archives, containing
royal letters detailing the madness of George III, Lord
Byron'saccount of his pursuit by Lady Caroline Lamb, and a
grovelling note of thanks from George Washington, was broken up
yesterday.
The collection, from Bowood House in Wiltshire, was sold by the
Earl of Shelburne to help pay for the upkeep of the house. The sale
raised pounds 853,230 - more than pounds 150,000 above the guide
price suggested by Christie's, the London auctioneers.
The sale of the letters, sent to four previous generations of
the earls of Shelburne and the ...
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A bibliographical list of cuneiform inscriptions from Canaan, Palestine/Philistia, and the land of Israel.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...from well-known texts such as the Taanach letters, which have been studied and translated a number of times (Taanach 1-2, 5-6), to mere scraps of...inscribed objects come from three sites: Taanach (17), Hazor (15), and Aphek...
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The Religion of Ancient Israel
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; ...two sites, Kuntillet 'Ajrud and Khirbet el-Kom, along with reexamination of the cult stand from Taanach (see his Excursus 2 on the Taanach cult stand). Miller believes that the feminine dimension may be found in Yahweh himself, but he also...
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The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...inspection of three-dimensional iconographic material such as the Taanach cult stands, which reveals significant details missed by earlier...Qom and K. 'Ajrud data, the cult-stands from Pella and Taanach, and the "concubine" goddess figurines, go far beyond any...
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Fire/men
Magazine article from: Judaism
; ...human beings, especially children, are sacrificed to appease or please a god. "Recent excavations in Palestine, at Gezer, Taanach, and Megiddo, have revealed regular cemeteries round the heathen altars, in which skeletons of scores of infants have been...
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The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for Hebrew Goddess
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology
; ...the Lachish Fosse Temple. Also included are the gold plaque from the Lachish Summit Temple, the cult stands from Pella and Taanach, and the vast assemblage of terracotta plaque and pillar figurines found at numerous sites throughout the region. When discussing...
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Books received--2005.
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal
; ...Cochavi-Rainey, Zippora. [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] (To the King my Lord: Letters from El-Amarna, Kumidu, Taanach and other letters from the fourteenth century B.C.E.). Pp. xxx + 345. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2005. Paper...
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Digging and death Even archaeology can be deadly in the Holy Land, says Charles Thomas
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...murder of an American citizen. The simplest explanation could be that Dr Glock, who worked for years at Tell Ti'innik - "Taanach" in the Bible, and now a village on the Jordanian border - was promoting interpretations of the Holy Land's remote past...
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Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets: A Linguistic Analysis of the Mixed Dialect used by Scribes from Canaan.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...second half of the fourteenth century. That this system was also used in the fifteenth century is shown by the letter from Taanach. The prefix conjugation of Canaanite can be divided into two modes, the indicative for tenses and the injunctive for "volition...
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No Graven Image? Israelite Aniconism in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...criteria for a cultic context, M. examines Iron Age Arad, Lachish, Beth-shemesh, the "Bull Site," Tirzah, Megiddo, Taanach, and Tel Dan for standing stones. For the origin of this cult, he considers cultic masseebot in the Uvda Valley and Timna...
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Israelite identity and personal names from the book of judges.(Report)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal
; ...millennium Amorite occurrences of the second element in personal names, it also is found in personal names at Ugarit and at Late Bronze Age Taanach. (10) Thus the similarities in the personal names and the structure point toward a secon
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