Window into the Bible
Pottery
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Potter’s Wheel Socket
Date: 2650 – 2350 BC Place: Megiddo [Israel]
Photographed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? (Romans 9:21)
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Upper and Lower Bearing for Potter’s Wheel
Date: Unknown Place: Beth Shemesh
Photographed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. (Isaiah 64:8)
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Pottery Manufacture
Date: Unknown Place: Tel Dan, Israel
Photographed at the Beit Ussishkin Museum, Israel.
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You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”? (Isaiah 29:16)
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Mass of Skyphoi and Lamps (Failed batches from a pottery kiln)
Details unknown
Photographed at the National Archeological Museum of Athens, Athens, Greece. |
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Remains of a Pottery Kiln
Date: before 70 AD. Place: Qumran, Israel
Photographed at the Qumran excavation site, Qumran, Israel. |