A pair of Israelite Bronze Cymbals, ca. 930 BCE Fine Art She is wearing a headdress

She is wearing a headdress decorated with two strands of beads

Akhetaten (Tell el-Amarna)

Although a radiocarbon test dates this figure to the early Late Period

where gold and colored glass were prized for both their beauty and symbolic associations with protection

A pair of Israelite Bronze Cymbals, ca. 930 BCE Fine Art She is wearing a headdressBoth consist of a circular, flat bronze plate with a pierced domed center designed for attachment to a strap or cord handle. Background: In contrast to the large, thin cymbals familiar today, cymbals from the Biblical period were generally much smaller and thicker in form. Archaeological examples excavated in the Levant and Palestine indicate two principal types: a smaller variety measuring approximately 1. 25 to 2. 5 inches (36 cm) in diameter, such