Window into the Bible
Food Preparation
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Woman Grating Cheese
Date: c. 500 – 475 BC.
Place: Greece
Photographed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts USA.
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Slave Preparing Food
Date: 1st – 2nd century AD Place: Made in Egypt
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
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This terracotta model depicts a slave preparing food in a mortarium. He is wiping his eye, possibly because he was grinding onion.
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Wall Painting Showing Food Preparation
Photographed at the Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
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This wall painting shows Egyptians preparing food offerings including; butchering an ox, carrying baskets of grain, gazelles, a hare, poultry and eggs, cakes, fish, vases and flowers.
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Model of a Kitchen Boat Preparing for a Picnic
Date: 1981 – 1975 BC Place: Tomb of Meketre, Western Thebes [Egypt]
Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA.
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Many outings for Egyptian nobles ended with a picnic. On the boat model, Meketre’s servants are shown preparing part a picnic that will include roast fowl, dried beef, bread, beer, and soup. The roast fowl and soup are being cooked on this boat, while the meat and bread are being prepared on another boat (not photographed).
Butter Churn
Date: Unknown
Place: Unknown
Photographed at the Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
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Mortar and Pestle
Date: unknown Place: unknown
Photographed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them. (Proverbs 27:22)
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Mortar & Pestle
Date: 8th – 7th century BC. Place: Unknown
Photographed at the Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA.
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Fish Plate
Date: 4th century BC.
Place: Apulian
Photographed at the M. C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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Bronze Baking Pan
Date: 1st century AD Place: possibly Torre Annunziata
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
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Used for baking cakes and bread rolls.
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Sieve
Date: unknown. Place: el Amarna, Egypt
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
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Made from Palm leaf.
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Bronze Grater
Date: ca. 440 BC Place: Tomb at Trebbia [Italy]
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England. |
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Bronze Whisk
Date: 1400 – 1200 BC Place: Fosse Temple, Lachish [Israel]
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
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The whisk was possibly used to puree vegetables.
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Mortarium – Grinding Bowl
Date: 200 – 350 AD. Place: Unknown
Photographed at the Landesmuseum, Trier, Germany. |
Cooking Area
(Reproduction)
Photographed at Nazareth Village, Nazareth, Israel.
Kitchen in Courtyard
(Reproduction)
Photographed at Nazareth Village, Nazareth, Israel.