A gemstone engraved with a harvester reaping stalks

Hammat Tiberias, Byzantine period

Wheat is depicted on a coin of King Agrippa I

The coin is one of 139 coins in a hoard discovered in 1964. They were found in a clay lamp concealed in a crack in a wall of a house in the Jewish settlement at ʽEn Gedi.
Bronze, Jerusalem mint, 41/42 CE
Obverse: canopy; around, a Greek inscription: BACIΛEWC AΓPIΠA (King Agrippa)
Reverse: three wheat stalks and the date L–ς (Year 6) alongside them.

Barley (seeds?)

Nahal Ze’elim, Late Chalcolithic period

Barley seeds

Ohalo II, Epi-palaeolithic period

Barley is depicted on a coin minted by Coponius, the Roman procurator in Jerusalem. The coin was discovered at Masada.

Bronze, Jerusalem mint, 6/7 CE.
Obverse: ear of barley; around, a Greek inscription: KAICA–POC (Caesar)
Reverse: Palm tree; the date L–Λς (year 36) appears on either side of it

Figure playing a flute in a medallion of grape leafs, section of a mosaic

Horbat Shemaʽ, Byzantine period

Fragment of a plaque decorated with vine tendrils

Tel Ashkelon, date unknown

Architectural fragment decorated with vine tendrils

Korazim, Byzantine period

Cup rim decorated with a grape leaf

Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem, Hellenistic-Roman periods

Fragment of a plaque decorated with vine tendrils and grapes

Nahal Nevallat, Late Byzantine-Umayyad periods

The vineyard is represented on a coin that was discovered at Masada.

Bronze, Jerusalem mint, Year 2 of the Great Revolt (67/68 CE)
Obverse: amphora (jar); around, the date: Year Two (of the Revolt)
Reverse: vine leaf; around, a Hebrew inscription: חר(ו)ת-ציון (the freedom of Zion)

Remains of a necklace made of carbonized figs that were discovered in a jar

Tel Miqne, Late Bronze Age

The fig appears on a coin of Emperor Valerian, one of the last coins to be minted in the Land of Israel

Bronze, ʽAkko mint, 253-260 CE.
Obverse: Cuirassed bust; around, a Latin inscription: IMP CP LIC VA]LERIANVS AVG (the emperor Valerian)
Reverse: Fig tree, altars on either side; around, a Latin inscription: COL – PTOL (COLONIA PTOLEMAIS)

Pomegranate tree

section of the ‘Bird Mosaic’, Caesarea, Roman period

Pomegranate shaped vessel

Tel Ashdod, Iron Age II

Head of a pin fashioned in the shape of a pomegranate

Caesarea, Roman period

Clay lamp decorated with a menorah, the holy ark and a pomegranate

Netanya, Roman-Byzantine periods

A bowl decorated with a pomegranate

Tel Halif, Iron Age II

Cultic vessel (kernos) decorated with pomegranates, a bird (dove?) and a chalice

Sasa, Iron Age I

Pomegranate

Moza, Iron Age II

The pomegranate appears on a coin that was discovered at Masada

Silver shekel, Jerusalem mint, 70 CE
Obverse: Goblet, above: שה (Year 5); around, a Hebrew inscription: Shekel of Israel
Reverse: scepter head with three pomegranates on it; around, a Hebrew inscription: Jerusalem the Holy.

Olive pits

Masada, Roman period

The olive appears on one of the most ancient coins minted in Jerusalem

Silver Yehud, Jerusalem mint, until 332 BCE
Obverse: bust
Reverse: owl, in the upper left hand corner an olive branch, to the right of the owl is the word Yehud
(Replica)

Woven rope, made of date-palm

Nahal David, Cave of the Pool, Chalcolithic period

Lamp handle decorated with a palm

Kabul (Western Galilee), Early Roman period

A lintel decorated in relief with a cross, date palm trees, rosettes, egg-and-dart

Javweiza (Golan Heights), Byzantine period

Remains of a basket made of date-palm branches

‘The Christmas Cave’, Nahal Kidron, Jerusalem, Roman period

Fragment of an ivory palm tree-shaped inlay

Samaria, Iron Age II

Braided date-palm fibers with three glass vessels

Nahal Hever, Middle Roman period

Date stones

ʽEn Tamar, Roman period

The date appears on a coin that was minted by Bar Kokhba’s people

Bronze, Judah mint, 133-134 CE
Obverse: Date-palm tree, and below it an inscription: Shimʽon (Shimon [Bar Kokhba])
Reverse: Vine leaf; around, an inscription: ש ב לח ישראל (Year 2 to the freedom of Zion)