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We are pleased to present you with catalogue number 2 of Jerusalem Numismatics Auction House.
Text: L.Alexander Wolfe, Itamar Atzmon.
Photography: Daniel Rachamim.
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LOT 360:
Three terracotta black juglets, short neck, lug handle drawn from the rim to the shoulder, small body.
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Sold for: $160 (₪522)
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Three terracotta black juglets, short neck, lug handle drawn from the rim to the shoulder, small body.
Height 9.5, 8.6 and 7.4. Some abrasion.
Cf: Amiran, R. Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land, Jerusalem 1969, p. 263, no. 263-264 for similar. Intact.
Iron Age IIC, ca. 8th – early 6th cent BCE. This period witnessed the conquest of the Northern Kingdom of Israel by Assyria under Tiglath Pileser in 723, precipitating a migration of Israelites to Judah creating a strong state with its capital in Jerusalem albeit short-lived until the destruction of the Temple in 586 by Nebuchadnezzar.
Ex-Eugene and Monica Hollander collection, acquired from Tarshish in Jerusalem ca. 1970’s.
