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Middle Bronze Age Vessels : Middle Bronze Age Terracotta Oil Juglet
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Middle Bronze Age Terracotta Oil Juglet - PF.0118
Origin: Judaean Hills, Israel
Circa: 1900
BC
to 1600
BC
Dimensions:
8" (20.3cm) high
x 3.5" (8.9cm) wide
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Biblical
Style: Middle Bronze Age
Medium: Terracotta
$1,500.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
In Israel, as in other ancient kingdoms,
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 can only guess, yet
the connection is a direct one between
our age and theirs.
- (PF.0118)
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