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Middle Bronze Age Vessels : Middle Bronze Age Terracotta Jug
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Middle Bronze Age Terracotta Jug - P.0619
Origin: Kirmil, Hebron, Israel
Circa: 1900
BC
to 1700
BC
Collection: Biblical
Medium: Terracotta
$960.00
Location: United States
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In Israel, as in other ancient nations, it was customary to dedicate persons or objects to sacred use by anointing them with oil. Thus Samuel anointed Saul king, as Moses had hallowed the tabernacle and Aaron the High Priest before, and Abraham had sanctified Isaac. A vessel such as this--simple but elegant--may have contained oil for ritual use. Whose hands might have held it so long ago we cannot know, yet the connection is a direct one between our age and theirs.
- (P.0619)
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