Ivory Head of a Woman
https://www.facebook.com/lfmundy Ivory Head of a Woman Ivory head of a woman; Megiddo, fourteenth–twelfth century BCE. Carved ivory pieces from as early as the Mesolithic Period (ca. 12,000–8,000 BCE) help reconstruct aspects of life in the ancient Near East. Ibleam (ib´lee-uhm), a strongly fortified town near one of the southern passes into the Esdraelon Plain. It is to be identified with modern Khirbet Bel‘ameh located a quarter mile south of Jenin. Ibleam is mentioned in a fifteenth-century list of Canaanite towns that Pharaoh Thutmose III claims to have brought under his control. During the period of Israelite settlement, the tribe of Manasseh was unable to drive the Canaanites out of Ibleam (Josh. 17:11, 12; Judg. 1:27), and it probably remained in Canaanite hands until the time of David. Bileam of 1 Chron. 6:70 is probably identical with Ibleam; it is listed there as a levitical town of Manasseh, while the LXX version of the parallel passage, Josh. 21:25, lists Ibleam....