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Near Eastern Tell es-Safi Pottery Strainer Vessel
Near Eastern Tell es-Safi Pottery Strainer Vessel
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Description
Ancient Near East / Holy Land, Shephelah, Israel, Iron Age I, ca. 1000 to 700 BCE. This is a bulbous, iron-rich clay vessel of utilitarian form with strainer holes along the body, a flattened base, and a loop handle. There are remains of tan pigment to surface. Size: 4.15" H (10.5 cm).

Tell es-Safi (Arabic: تل الصافي, Tall aṣ-Ṣāfī, "the white hill"; Hebrew: תל צפית, Tel Tzafit) was a Palestinian village, located on the southern banks of Wadi 'Ajjur, 35 kilometers (22 mi) northwest of Hebron that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war on orders of Shimon Avidan, commander of the Givati Brigade.

Provenance: From the private collection of Richard F; NYC.

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#115577
Condition
Excellent encrustation, intact, with some pigment remaining.
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Near Eastern Tell es-Safi Pottery Strainer Vessel

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