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Stone Quern
Date: Unknown Place: Unknown
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Photographed at the Kelso Museum, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. (Matthew 24:41)


Mortar & Pestle (Reproduction)
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Photographed at the Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA.


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)


Bronze Grater
Date: ca. 440 BC Place: Tomb at Trebbia [Italy]
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Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.


Butter Churn |
Date: Unknown
Place: Unknown
Photographed at the Louvre Museum, Paris, France.


Roman Iron Knife
Date: 66 BC - 330 AD.
209 mm long.
Photographed at Bibleworld Museum & Discovery Centre, Rotorua, New Zealand.


Ivory spoon
Date: Unknown
Place: Egypt
Photographed at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London, England.
Made from hippopotamus ivory.


Copper Strainer
Date: 2330 – 2150 BC
Place: North Palace Area, Tell Asmar, Iraq
Photographed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. (Matthew 23:24)


Strainer
Date: 2000 – 1800 BC
Place: North Palace Area, Tell Asmar, Iraq
Photographed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.


Scrubbing Brush
Date: Roman era
Place: Sedment el-Gebel [Egypt]
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.



Lock and Chain
Date: 3rd century AD.
Place: Zugmantel Roman Fort, Germany
Photographed at the Limesmuseum, Aalen, Germany.
The commander came up and arrested him [Paul] and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done. (Acts 21:33)
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