Also known as the Levant, Biblical Israel, Judea – where our biblical pieces come from – and Canaan, the term Holy Land refers to sacred religious sites of the Levant from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Jordan River including Shiloh, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth and historical Canaan. In antiquity the Levant included Judea, Phoenicia and Assyria and other areas. In current geographical term it refers to the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia which generally corresponds to modern day Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey. The term Levant was first used in 1497 from the French word Levant and meant “the East” referring to the sun rising in the east. Some of our items are from the Judean Biblical Period in Israel are from 934-586BCE.
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This elegant ancient-pottery Judean vessel is an elegant single-handle amphoriskos (literally a “small amphora,”). It dates from the Holy Land during the first Jewish Biblical-Period in Judea circa the 8th to 6th century BCE, the later time of the presence of the first Jewish Temple in the ancient Levant. An ancient Greek inspired vessel, amphora…
This ancient pottery juglet was created in the Holy Land during the Biblical Period likely under Herod the Great, King of Judea or later in the Herodian Period (37BCE- 73CE). A Roman-Empire earthenware juglet, it that held perfume, costly oils, ointments or cosmetics. Like other functional pouring vessels, its ancient globular body is decorated with…
This black burnished earthenware juglet was made about the time the Jewish people returned from exile in Babylonia to Judea in the Holy Land (the Levant) during the Biblical Period (circa 600-300BCE). Then during the Iron Age, coil construction was used to make functional pieces and were finished using the paddle-and-anvil method to compact and…
This ancient-pottery juglet was created in the Holy Land and Levant during the Biblical Period likely under Herod the Great, king of ancient Judea or later in the Herodian Period (37BCE- 73CE). It is a terracotta earthenware juglet pouring vessel and utilitarian piece that held perfume or other costly oils, ointments or cosmetics. The globular…
The Biblical Period corresponds to the Middle to Late Bronze Age in the Holy Land (the Levant circa 2300-1200 BCE) when ancient pottery was made by molding wet clay into shapes (the coil construction method) and then finishing its shape by removing the clay’s excess moisture using the paddle-and-anvil technique) before firing. Made in Judea…
This Biblical Period ancient earthenware wine jug was made in the late Iron Age in the Holy Land of Judea (the Levant) about the time of the first Jewish Temple. A very high carinated piece, it was built using the coil construction method and the paddle and anvil technique. Like most pouring vessels, it was…
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