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Cooking Pots

 

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Hittite Cooking Pot

 

Date: 3900 – 2500 BC

Place: Chatal Hoyuk [Turkey]

 

Photographed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

 

In Genesis 23, Abraham purchases a field and cave from Ephron the Hittite as a burial ground for his family.

 

 

Judean Cooking Pot

 

Date: 800 - 500 BC.

Place: Found in Beth Shemesh

 

Photographed at Bibleworld Museum & Discovery Centre, Rotorua, New Zealand.

 

140 mm high.

 

 

Herodian Cooking Pot

 

Date: 30 BC - 100 AD.

Place: Found in Samaria

 

Photographed at Bibleworld Museum & Discovery Centre, Rotorua, New Zealand.

 

140 mm high. This is the style of Cooking pot used at the time of Jesus.

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