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Middle Bronze Age Terracotta Oil Jug - PF.0123
Origin: Kfar Malek, West Bank
Circa: 1900
BC
to 1600
BC
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Biblical
Medium: Terracotta
Additional Information: SOLD
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.0123)
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