The Dharma Wheel (Dharmachakra) is the most important symbol of Buddhism as it is the symbol of the Buddha’s initial sermon teaching Buddhist principles at the Sarnath Deer Park near Varanasi. In Buddhism, teaching and learning Buddhist law is symbolized by “turning the wheel,” first turned at the Deer Park. The dharma wheel has eight spokes with handles to turn the wheel (explain and learn the precepts of Buddhism) and to symbolize the Eightfold Path and the path to enlightenment. Likewise, the wheel, the spokes and the center of the wheel are interconnected literally and symbolically, and three swirls at the center symbolize the Three Jewels of Buddhism (Trirtna): Buddha (teacher and creator of Buddhism), the Dharma (the Buddha’s teachings and Buddhist law) and the sangha (the Buddhist community of monks). This also occurs when a Buddhist deity is in meditation and has hands together forming the base and the thumbs together and up finishing a triangle.
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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 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…
An oenochoe or oinochoe is the Greek word for a wine jug and the name of an important category of Greek pottery created in many forms of which there are many variants copied and modified by cultures throughout the ancient world, especially by ancient pottery centers in the Africa Proconsularis province of Roman North Africa. As common…
This kiln-fired medium size earthenware platter is a wheel made functional piece called African Red Slip (ARS). A category of ancient pottery used by those of high status for formal occasions to serve food, it was made in Roman-Empire production centers in the Roman-North-Africa province called Africa-Proconsularis. They were shipped everywhere along the same trade…
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