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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
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Biblical
Style: Middle Bronze Age
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.
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