NEB007
Near Eastern bronze phiale (libation bowl).
Persian period (The Return to Zion - Early Second Temple Period): 6th-4th century BC
H. 3 cm (1 1/8 in.), D. 14.6 cm (5 ¾ in.)
Several holes at the horizontal part. Fine bluish-green patina with beige incrustation.
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The shallow bowl is decorated in repousse, with pine pattern ornament, with a domed projection in the center of the base, encircled by a groove, with a small projection in the center.
Cf. (In gold) Picon, C.A., Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth J. Milleker, Christopher S. Lightfoot, Sean Hemingway eds., , New York, 2007, fig. 231.
(Hebrew) Stern, E., Jerusalem, 1973, p. 89, fig. 100.
Picon, C.A., Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth J. Milleker, Christopher S. Lightfoot, Sean Hemingway eds., Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007.
(Hebrew) Stern, E., The Material Culture of the Land of the Bible in the Persian Period 538-332 B.C.E., The Bialik Institute and the Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, 1973.
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