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Plate depicting six biblical places and figures in Lebanon and Israel. The plate is in landscape format and has no frame. Inscriptions are visible around the drawings.
Line 1, from left to right :
– a capital from the citadel gate at Haçor (Hazor), 9th c. B.C.
– the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot’s wife transformed into a statue of salt
– Berythus (Beirut).
Line 2, from left to right :
– the peninsula port and racecourse in Tyre
– the prophet Elijah in Haifa
– the great ancient port of Akko (Acre), called Ptolemais in Hellenistic times.