184pp; 4pp illus from photographs. Bowen studied at Jerusalem's American School of Oriental Research and collected "several tons" of antiquities. She also conducted many interviews with Jerusalem residents. Here, she presents a handbook of several hundred entries on the life, scenes and customs of Biblical times, grouped by types of antiquities (charms, ossuaries and utensils, agricultural tools, drinking vessels, musical instruments, alabaster, carvings and heads from Egypt, models of tombs, medicines of the primitive Arabs, caravans and legion tiles, jars, etc.). 8" x 5.25"

Middle  East;    Holy  Land;    Jerusalem