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Early Bronze Age Vessels : Early Bronze Age Terracotta Jug
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Early Bronze Age Terracotta Jug - SP.370
Origin: Hebron Hills, Israel
Circa: 2700
BC
to 2300
BC
Dimensions:
6.75" (17.1cm) high
Collection: Biblical
$1,500.00
Location: United States
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In the millennium before the patriarch
Abraham, this elegant vessel might have held
an offering of food or drink. It was perhaps
left as a votive offering to win the favor of a
powerful deity. As we hold it in our hands
today, admiring its simple beauty, we are
aware of the touch of other hands long ago.
Who might have held it when it was new?
Were the dreams and emotions that guided
their lives so very different from our own? The
vessel's graceful unadorned shape appeals
as much to the contemporary eye as it did to
the culture that created it. Such artifacts,
ordinary enough in their own age, connect us
in an intimate way with the world of the past.
In its presence, we cross the bridge of time
and set the imagination on a journey of
discovery.
- (SP.370)
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