Antique pottery shard pendant
$100.00
Antique pottery shard pendant made in the middle east 1st century B.C. used in the holly Jewish temple as a receipt paid for the offers given to the temple. With antique pottery shard pendant, owner comes to the great priest and handles him the shard and gets blessed. This particular shard has a hole to attach a cord or chain. The use of pottery shards was to prevent the use of money on the high holidays ( money use is prohibited on Saturday and high holidays). Dimension 2.1 cm X 2.4 cm X 1 cm approximately.
The science of Archeology is a way to find facts of ancient artifacts and evidence of ancient cultures and civilization.
This is how we can learn about the most ancient civilization found in Mesopotamia , the Akkadians, the Egyptians and the Jewish kingdom.
Archeology helps to determine many evidences such as political powers and even religious beliefs.
During the 17th century there was a great push to excavate antique sites to find answers for the eternal question ” who lived here before and who built these monuments”.
The trend was in England Stonehenge , Pompeii in Italy and Egypt archaeological abundant sites and Greece.
In modern time, and after many generations of archeological diggings all over the world, the archeologists have set specific rules as how to go for an excavation without damaging evidences. First to define the area , draw maps take photographs of the area to be excavated. Modern technology is implied like metal detectors and much more more developed technics.
Every day archeologists find a new hidden artifact to give an answer what was here before.
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