Incense-burning rituals From Philistine fire pans at Yavneh to the improper fire of Korah
Dozens of pottery fire pans composed of a bowl-like part and a handle were found in the Philistine repository pit at Yavneh, Israel. They date from the ninth–eighth century BCE and are published here for the first time. These vessels, derived from second-millennium BCE Aegean forms, have never befor...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Israel exploration journal
Year: 2010, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 166-187 |
| Further subjects: | B
Sacrifice Religion
B Sciance B Iron age B Ceramics |
| Summary: | Dozens of pottery fire pans composed of a bowl-like part and a handle were found in the Philistine repository pit at Yavneh, Israel. They date from the ninth–eighth century BCE and are published here for the first time. These vessels, derived from second-millennium BCE Aegean forms, have never before been identified in the Southern Levant. On the basis of the location of marks of burning, their relation to other finds and the pictorial evidence, we contend that the Yavneh fire pans were used in a cultic context for burning incense. Their discovery re-opens the complex issues of the ‘shovel’ in the Old Testament and the use of incense in the Iron Age. |
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| ISSN: | 0021-2059 |
| Contains: | In: Israel exploration journal
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