Window into the Bible
Terracotta Household Items
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Terracotta Cup
Date: c 3200 BC.
Place: Bab Edh Dhra, Jordan
Photographed at Bibleworld Museum & Discovery Centre, Rotorua, New Zealand.
100 mm high.
Bab Edh Dhra is possibly the site of ancient Sodom. This cup would have been used about one thousand years before the destruction of the city at the time of Abraham (Genesis 19).
Wine Jug
Date: 1850 - 1550 BC
Place: Found in Hebron
Photographed at Bibleworld Museum & Discovery Centre, Rotorua, New Zealand.
150 mm high.
Roman Terracotta Water or Oil Jug
Date: 63 BC - 330 AD.
Place: Found in Israel.
Photographed at Bibleworld Museum & Discovery Centre, Rotorua, New Zealand.
174 mm high.
Roman Painted Plate
Date: 63 - 330 AD.
Place: Found in Israel
Photographed at Bibleworld Museum & Discovery Centre, Rotorua, New Zealand.
195 mm diameter.
Storage Jar with Dipper Juglet
Date: 720-586 BC.
Place: Levant
Photographed at the M. C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Jug with Dipper
The handle of the jug doubles as a stand for the dipper and allows any excess liquid to drain back into the jug.
Photographed at the Kelso Museum, Pittsburgh, USA.
This type of jug was likely used for olive oil. Olive oil was used for a range of purposes including cooking, lighting and cosmetics.
2 Kings 4:1-7 records a widow who was blessed by God when she followed the instructions of the prophet Elisha to fill up all available jars with olive oil.
Pot and Juglet
Date: 3500 - 2000 BC
Place: Tomb C, Et-Tell, (possibly ancient Ai) [Israel]
This pot has a false neck used to hold a miniature jug.
Photographed at the Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
Pilgrim Flask
Date: 1200 - 586 BC
Place: Levant
Photographed at the M. C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Selection of Pottery Vessels
Date: 1800 - 1550 BC.
Place: Jericho
From Tomb P1 at Jericho.
Excavated by Kathleen Kenyon.
Photographed at the M. C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Range of Pots, Jars and a Lamp
Date: Neo-Babylonian
Place: unknown
Photographed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Range of Isin Larsa Pottery
Photographed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Generally thin walled, well fired, undecorated.
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Two Handled Oil Jar with Stopper
Date: 2246 – 2152 BC Place: Tomb G ????
Photographed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts USA.
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Large Jug
Date: 1800 – 1600 BC
Place: Central Turkey
Photographed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts USA.
Large Jug
Date: 1800 – 1600 BC
Place: Central Turkey
Photographed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts USA.
Large Jug
Date: 1800 – 1600 BC
Place: Central Turkey
Photographed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts USA.
Selection of Pottery
Date: Unknown
Place: Tel Dan, Israel
Photographed at the Beit Ussishkin Museum, Israel.
Pottery Manufacture
Date: Unknown
Place: Tel Dan, Israel
Photographed at the Beit Ussishkin Museum, Israel.
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)
Pottery Vessels
Date: 3300 – 3100 BC
Place: Tomb G2 at Bab edh-Dhra, Jordan
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.