Early Bronze Age – was when man discovered how to use copper and the first urbanization – Pottery jug with high handle. EB I ca. 3000 BCE. Cf. Amiran R. p. 45, no. 24 for similar. 13 x 13 cm
Middle Bronze Age – the time of the Patriarchs. Grey juglet; body with sloping shoulders; button base; dotted decoration on shoulder typical of Tell-el-Yehudiya ware. Cf. Amiran pp. 116-121, for class of object and p.121, photo 123 for shape. 13 x 10 cm.
Late Bronze Age – a time of tremendous trading in the Eastern Mediterranean, much centred on Cyprus. Grey juglet, with lug handle and everted long neck; decorated with five sets of concentric circles sandwiched between seven lines above and four lines below. Three white lines above flat base. Cf. Amiran, pl. 46 no.6 ca. 1550-1200 BCE. 15 x 8.5 cm.
Iron Age –the exodus from Egypt according to the Biblical Narrative, the time of David, Solomon and the First Temple in Jerusalem. Pottery chalice; a shallow bowl on a high foot; ridge just above the base. Iron Age I. 17.7 x 16.5 cm. some restoration to foot.
Iron Age –the exodus from Egypt according to the Biblical Narrative, the time of David, Solomon and the First Temple in Jerusalem. Pottery open lamp. Iron Age. 12.3 x 5 cm
Iron Age –the exodus from Egypt according to the Biblical Narrative, the time of David, Solomon and the First Temple in Jerusalem. Pottery jug; lug handle; red slip abrasion; broken and repaired 21.5 x 15.5 cm
Pottery “cocked-hat lamp”; this is a local development from the time of the Hasmonaeans of the Phoenician lamps that are found all over the Mediterranean from Spain in the West to the Eastern Mediterranean littoral. Ca, 2nd-1st cent BCE. Allegedly found in Mishmar Haemeq in the Galilee. 8 x 4.3 cm.
10 x 13 cm
Bronze incense shovel; fluted handle. Ca. 1st-2nd cent CE. Cf. Yadin, Y. Bar Cochba, p. no. for similar vessels that were taken as booty by the forces of Shim’on Bar Cochba during the Bar Cochba Revolt. 30 x 8.7 cm. Acquired from Barakat, Jerusalem 1970’s.
Pottery oil lamp with seven spouts; geometric decoration of intertwining rope motif on body of lamp; abrasion; some damage around filling hole; handle broken; Beit Nattif, ca. 3rd-4th cent CE. Provenance – from the collection of General Moshe Dayan with inscription from him on the base. 14.5 x 11cm
Ca. 3rd-5th cent CE. 10.5 x 7 cm
Terracotta incantation bowl with 17 spiral lines of Babylonian Jewish Aramaic. Such bowls were the most widespread class of amulet in the Late Sassanian period in Mesopotamia from the middle of the fifth century till the ascent of Islam shortly after the mid 7th century. They were placed under the thresholds of houses the rationale being that demons and other evil spirits would be trapped inside the bowls while crossing the portal. The client’s name is Mirdukh daughter of Hormizdukh. In addition to the names of angels, and the evil spirit it mentions, ‘Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy’, which is derived from Isaiah. To be published by Dr. James Nathan Ford. Sasanian Persia ca. 5th-7th cent CE. 15.5 cm. diam. May not be exported.
Carthage ca. 4th-5th cent CE. Small break at nozzle ,cracked between the top and bottom halves. 9.5 x 6.7 cm
Glass pendant, depicting seven branched menorah, lulav and etrog on the right; shofar on left. Suspension loop missing; manufacturing flaw at shofar; Ca. 5th-7th cent CE. For specimens from same mould, cf. Spaer M. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum, Beads and other Small Objects. p. 181 no. 371, and lot no. 48 in the sale of the Michael Steinhardt collection at Sotheby’s 1.6 cm. diam.
המאה הרביעית-החמישית לסה”נ (התקופה הביזנטית – בתקופה זאת נעשה שימוש נפוץ בסמלים יהודיים ונוצריים). קוטר 1.6 ס”מ.
Syria ca. 7th-8th cent CE. Cf. Rosenthal, R. and Sivan, R. Ancient Lamps in the Schloessinger Collection, pp. 141-142, nos. 578-582. 11 cm diam. X 4.4 cm. high.
Pottery oil lamp; linear, geometric and dotted decoration; unidentified motif at nozzle; Northern Israel/Transjordan, ca. 6th cent CE. 9.5 x 6
seven Glass juglet pendants, 6 complete, 1 broken. 4th-5th cent CE. Cf. Spaer, M. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum, Beads and Other Small Objects, p. 178, no. 339-354, and p. 361, pl.28. length of each ca. 3 cm
Islamic Period- the period of Islamic sovereignty in the region from 638-1917 with a brief interregnum during the period of the Crusades. 4.4 x 3.4 cm
Islamic Period- the period of Islamic sovereignty in the region from 638-1917 with a brief interregnum during the period of the Crusades. 4.6 x 3.5 cm
Islamic Period- the period of Islamic sovereignty in the region from 638-1917 with a brief interregnum during the period of the Crusades. 6.5 x 4.6
Crusader Period – when European Christians came to the Holy Land to recapture the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Cf. Knights of the Holy Land, p.262 for related material. The problem in attributing anepigraphic objects as Crusader is that there was a substantial overlap of the material culture with the neighbouring Islamic cultures. 7.5 x 4.2 cm.
