Gifts from Mayor Teddy
BOOKS Gifts from Mayor Teddy Gifts of Tamar and Teddy Kollek to the Israel Museum, Jerusalem Gems of Antiquity, Jerusalem in Maps and Views David Mevorah, editor; Dorothea...
...some 6,000-year-old mace heads of haemaute, porphyry and copper, and Jewish oil lamps decorated with a menorah and grapes that date from the first to fourth centuries C E. This is a coffee table book in the best sense—to display and to leaf through, to dip into and to learn from...
...This small book pictures and describes the gifts of the mayor of Jerusalem and his wife to the Israel Museum (of which he has served as chairman of the board of directors since its inception) in connection with the museum's 25th anniversary This is a quality production from start to finish...
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...Especially interesting is the collection of maps, views and imaginative reconstructions of Jerusalem—some as early as the 15th century, others from the early 20th century...
...There is much else as well—a Car-nelhan necklace in Egyptian style with a unique gold spacer depicting Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of love and joy, apparently illegally excavated by local Bedouins from a site near Gaza...
...Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, translator The Israel Museum, 1990,140 pp, $29 00 A special pleasure to own and handle, almost like an ancient artifact itself, the hardcover catalogue, Gifts of Tamar and Teddy Kollek to the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, is beautifully designed, written and photographed...
Vol. 16 • February 1991 • No. 1
