Posted on 08/06/2010 3:56:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to Karen Covello-Paran, director of the excavation on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, "We discovered a wide rare bracelet made of bronze. The ancient bracelet, which is extraordinarily well preserved, is decorated with engravings and the top of it is adorned with a horned structure. At that time horns were the symbol of the storm-god and they represented power, fertility and law. The person who could afford such a bracelet was apparently very well off financially, and it probably belonged to the village ruler. It is interesting to note that in the artwork of neighboring lands gods and rulers were depicted wearing horned crowns; however, such a bracelet, and from an archaeological excavation at that, has never been found here".
The bracelet was found inside an estate house dating to the Canaanite period (the Late Bronze Age) that was exposed in the excavation, and which was part of an ancient settlement that existed on the southeastern slope of Ramat Razim, in a rocky area that overlooks the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights. The building was made of indigenous limestone and included a paved central courtyard surrounded by rooms that were lived in and used as storerooms. Along with the bracelet, a Canaanite scarab was found that is made of stone and engraved with Egyptian hieroglyphs. In antiquity scarabs were worn as pendants or were inlaid in rings, and they were used as a seal by the people who carried them or as a talisman with magical powers. We also learn from these valuable finds that the residents of the building were also engaged in barter.
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They eat humans. They just wasted their time here at that time.
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Oh, duh. I actually did know the Lydians originated coins, but the time-line was fuzzy. I should have gotten out my giant fold-out timeline of everything that ever happened! That’s what I bought it for, after all.
My youngest daughter is the penguin collector. At least they’re fake!
Thousands of penguins. Anyway, they have the real cold weather types in an icehouse and they go out and dive and fly underwater and so forth ~ and POOP A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT ~ they eat only fish.
Be thankful your daughter didn't get into collecting real penguins.
Don’t all bathrobes shrink and become de facto buttless eventually? ;’)
I think that facility was just getting going when I was a child in San Diego, early 70s. My daughter got into penguins when the Tulsa Zoo got them, when she was about 2. They do poop a lot!
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