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Among the topics are of masks and men: thoughts on masks from different perspectives, whether deities can be impersonated: the question of the use of masks in ancient Egyptian rituals, Face of Death and the Face of Baal: masks from the southern Levant Stone Age and Bronze Age, masks in the Old Testament: masks in ancient Palestine/Israel, Iron Age Persian masks and protomes from Tel Dor, the king's godly image as the perfect physiognomy of the holder of the kingship: royal ideology during the Neo-Assyrian Period, and encountering the heroic prosopeion in fifth-century theater performance.

Ephraim Stem, who directed the excavations at Tel Dor for more than two decades (1980-2000), has written this very short monograph (just seventy-four pages, including bibliography) to make a single point: He believes that he has identified an assemblage consisting of monochrome painted pottery and assorted additional objects, including knives and notched scapulae, that belonged to the material culture of the so-called "Northern Sea Peoples." These he identifies as the non-Philistine Sea Peoples, especially the Sikils and the Sherden.

Washington, Sep 21 (ANI): University of Haifa diggers have found a rare bronze signet ring with the impression of the face of the Greek sun god, Apollo, at Tel Dor, in northern Israel.

Another multi-period site in the same region is Tel Dor on the Carmel coast, where archaeologists in recent years have come across such diverse finds as the skeleton of a Phoenician woman, icons of Persian gods and cannon-balls dating from the Hellenistic period (323-27 BC).