The present site has at least twenty shaft tombs in which the Canaanites buried their dead some 4,000 years ago, in the Middle Bronze Age.
Today's best find, to my eyes, was this unusual vessel.
It was down in the burial cave at the end of this shaft. Here our one Bedouin worker is being pulled out, no ladder!
Behind him is Haj. I don't know his name because all the workers (Moslems) simply call him Haj. It is the title of respect given to a pilgrim after he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.
You never come up empty-handed. Interesting about "Haj."
ReplyDeleteit looks like hot work today!
ReplyDeleteWonderful finds! Cheers, Klaus
ReplyDeleteI would be SO Excited going in!!! Great pictures Dina...Thank you for them!!!hughugs
ReplyDeleteLove the vessel. Another interesting post-makes me wish I could sneak to work with you.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to go down in that hole do you Dina? Nice find though..
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm with Tipper! What a thrill. You have the most interesting job, and interesting coworkers, too. I'm so glad you can take your camera to work and share it all with us.
ReplyDeleteThat pot is so complete! "I am a teapot, short and stout..."
ReplyDeleteThat is an unusual looking pot. How deep are those shafts? With no latter?? What do they do with the bones when they find burial places? I am just full of questions this morning.
ReplyDeleteWow, Dina that looks like a fascinating job. Hope you don't have to climb into that hole though.
ReplyDeleteHi Dina.
ReplyDeleteI left a comment on :A still small soul.
Also thanks for sharing this historical event of this vessel finding.
It almost looks like a tea pot.It really does make you want to sit down and have tea with our middle aged bronzed ancestors.
I have just been admiring a page from the St. John's Bible by art director Donald Jackson. It is four years into the making.It contains english and hebrew script in the illuminated manuscript style. It's aim is to show that all religions have the same roots.
I just thought you may be interested as you are always extending yourself to the christians. They have an on line exhibition.
It seems like a beautiful work.
love and light
ichandrae.
shalom have a great day.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/stjohnsbible/stjohns-exhibit.html
(in case you haven't heard of this beauty)
That vessel is amazing. What a great find.
ReplyDeleteI love the info about "Haj". I love that the culture still has so much respect involved. My hubby and I had a run in last night that involved someone being very disrespectful to their elders and we came home so disappointed. I'm glad that it still exsists somewhere.
*hugs*
Dusty, hot, strenuous... and so exciting for those of us who have an interest in such things! Does everyone on the dig get a bit thrilled to find something like that, or is it 'just another thing' to them?
ReplyDeleteI'm a Haj too! I visited Mecca last year ;)
ReplyDeleteDina, what's your exact job position there in the project? I'm interested to know.
I'm so glad you're enjoying the archeological dig. It sounds like so much fun!
ReplyDeletewow! more discoveries. i wonder how hot it is there.
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful to be a part of history and, in a way, shape it!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
exciting find....wow! Wish I had been there, it would be so cool to dig up a pot. I have a friend, ceramic artist, who made an art piece, broke it up, buried it, and held a dig, close as I have gotten to digging up a pot, it was fun tho..
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