Antique Olive Wood Relief Carving with Bible, Arrow, Club, Tools grids and a moon

and a moon

I grabbed it

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I have to think this concrete arm is a remnant of an outdoor statue

Antique Olive Wood Relief Carving with Bible, Arrow, Club, Tools grids and a moonIt took some searching but I am fairly certain this carving was made in Jerusalem, late 19th early 20th century I believe, quite wonderfully carved of beautiful olive wood, with a combination of symbols arranged to form a sort of cross, arrow on one diagonal, what I take for a club on the other, Bible at the center. Someone more knowledgable that I might readily discern the symbolic meaning of each object, but as with Masonic imagery, I'm quite