Identity & Inscription on Sgrafitto 'tiles'

These aren't really tiles - they're slightly cupped flat pottery wall hangings. As you can see in the pictures they are decorated in a freehand sqrafitto technique and the smaller one has an inscription in some form of script. Can anyone identify where these came from and what the inscription says?

 

I ran it through google translate and it looks like it might be Hebrew for narcissus.

See what you think, of course yours is vertical not right to left.

נַרקִיס

• Narcissus,
• daffodil,
• amaryllis

 

That's where I was going too, SIS, but you beat me too it!

 

Don't know if it's right though. Maybe there are some Hebrew speakers that can say.

 

@komokwa maybe?

 

Looks like a narcissus to me.

"The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the narcissus, it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy." Isaiah 35:1-2


Debora

 

Certainly narcissus, which originated around the Med. I wonder what the foxes staring at the moon means?

 

Wolves howling at the moon?

 

Thanks for the assistance. It looks like they are from Israel but I googled Israel tiles and didn't find anything quite like them. I am guessing they are mid century.
I realized I didn't put any sizes in - The larger is 5" high, 4.25" wide; the smaller is about 4.5" high x 2.5" wide

 

Nothing about them looks mid-century. They're new or new-ish.

Debora

 

Another Israeli ceramic wall plaque featuring narcissi. Must be a thing.

Debora

 

Thanks everybody. In the process of checking various Israeli pottery pieces I was also able to identify another piece from Lapid Pottery. I marvel at your abilities to find equivalent or even identical pieces.