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Bronze Age Artefacts : Middle Bronze Age Sculpture of a Ram
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Middle Bronze Age Sculpture of a Ram - P.0612
Origin: Hebron Hills, Israel
Circa: 1900
BC
to 1600
BC
Dimensions:
3.25" (8.3cm) high
x 3.5" (8.9cm) wide
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Biblical
Medium: Terracotta
$4,000.00
Location: United States
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Just as Abraham was about to sacrifice
his son Isaac to god, an angel appeared
to point out a ram whose horns were
tangled in the bushes. Abraham
gratefully sacrificed the animal
instead. This magnificent, curly-horned
votive--regal as the heavenly Aries--
also dates from the age of the Biblical
patriarchs, and was offered as a gift to
god. Perhaps it commemorated the
sacrifice of Isaac, an event which might
have occurred within living memory of
when this figure was made.
- (P.0612)
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