Hellenistic rooster   [59 x 34 cm]

Source of image: Marisa Tomb Paintings
Embroidery: Alia Abu-Rabia', Drejat, Naqab

One of a pair of roosters, whose heads are turned backwards, straddling a doorway to the main tomb chamber at Tell Sandahannah, an excavated mound one mile south of Beit Gibrin.

Era: Hellenistic Period (332—63 BCE)