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Middle Bronze Age Vessels : Middle Bronze Age Terracotta Oil Jug
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Middle Bronze Age Terracotta Oil Jug - PF.0119
Origin: Doura, Hebron, Israel
Circa: 1900
BC
to 1600
BC
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Biblical
Medium: Terracotta
$1,200.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
In Israel, as in other ancient nations,
it was customary to dedicate persons or
objects to sacred use by annointing them
with oil. Thus Samuel annointed 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.0119)
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