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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
Collection: Biblical
Style: Middle Bronze Age
Medium: Terracotta
$1,500.00
Location: United States
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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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