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The Chalcolithic (or "Copper-Stone Age") is a chrono-cultural period that may have lasted for over a millennium, although the date of its end is somewhat problematic. The earliest phases of this period are associated with pottery that is little different from the pottery of the Latest Neolithic periods (see Late Neolithic Pottery).
Archaeologists found a pottery shard with a Hebrew inscription dating back to the 7th century BCE, similar to the name "Zechariah son of Benaiah." [3] The bowl likely originated between the reigns of Hezekiah and Zedekiah. [4] [5] It reads "ryhu bn bnh". [6] [7] [8]
Pottery with inscriptions incised post-firing — "They are not ostraca." Stone vessels featuring incised inscriptions. Wall plaster inscriptions, four examples. Inscriptions found on complete storage jars, two. The paper says that the Kuntillet findings débuted (Nov 30 1975) at the home of the President of Israel. [8]
The site represents one of the largest ancient city mounds in Israel, its surface area comprising 120,000 m 2 in size, divided into an "Upper City" (40,000 m 2) and a "Lower City" (80,000 m 2). Archaeological excavations have been conducted at Rehov since 1997, under the directorship of Amihai Mazar.
A 4-year-old accidentally knocked over and shattered a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age jar during a visit to the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa in Israel on Friday.. The museum said the ...
Armenian Ceramics at the Jerusalem House of Quality (Saint John Eye Hospital Group), JerusalemAt the end of 1918, members of the British Military Administration and the Pro-Jerusalem Society invited David Ohannessian, a master Armenian ceramicist from Ottoman Kütahya and a survivor of the Armenian Genocide who was living as a refugee in Aleppo, to travel to Jerusalem to renovate the ceramic ...
Additionally, despite its proximity to the Kingdom of Judah, it has an association with the northern Kingdom of Israel (Samaria): "elements of the material culture such as the pottery, the 'northern' orthography in certain inscriptions, and reference to YHWH of Samaria suggest that Kuntillet ʿAjrud was an Israelite outpost, or at the very ...
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