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Pomegranate in art – Syria

SYRIA – CIRCA 2002: Embossed gold cup from the Temple of Baal near Ugarit (now Ras Shamra), Syria. Assyrian civilisation, 13th Century BC. Aleppo, Archaeological Museum (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) https://www.gettyimages.com/

Golden bowl with chiseled pomegranates garland, found in the Temple of Baal. Ugarit /Ras Sharma, Syria, 14th-13th century BCE.


POMEGRANATE (PUNICA GRANATUM L.) FROM MOTYA AND ITS DEEPEST ORIENTAL ROOTS, Lorenzo Nigro and Federica Spagnoli https://www.academia.edu

https://virtual-museum-syria.org/aleppo/golden-bowl-from-ugarit/

Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités orientales, AO 11606 – https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010136323

Bronze stand for an incense burner with pomegranate pendants.
Ugarit /Ras Sharma, Syria, 16th-12th century BCE.


POMEGRANATE (PUNICA GRANATUM L.) FROM MOTYA AND ITS DEEPEST ORIENTAL ROOTS, Lorenzo Nigro and Federica Spagnoli https://www.academia.edu

Syria – Ugarit, 1400-1300 BC. Jewelry mould. A matrix made from black steatite for molding jewels consists in two pieces on which flowers were engraved. (Photo by Patrick CHAPUIS/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Soapstone mold for casting jewelry from Ugarit (Ras Shamra), Syria; 1400-1300 BCE

Aleppo Museum (inv. 4571)


Andy Mountain, The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Sharma
https://www.academia.edu/32367929/The_City_of_Ugarit_at_Tell_Ras_Shamra

Steatite jewelry mold, Ugarit / Ras Sharma royal palace

RS 16.20, Damascus Museum


Laurent Bruxelles, L’approche géomorphologique du site de Lalibela
The geomorphological approach to the Lalibela site
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258199612_L’approche_geoarcheologique_des_eglises_monolithiques_du_site_de_Lalibela_Ethiopie


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