Comparative Artifacts for Better Understanding of Ancient Israel Analysis Hi there,The instructions are all in the Word document that I attached below. The
Comparative Artifacts for Better Understanding of Ancient Israel Analysis Hi there,The instructions are all in the Word document that I attached below. The museum that I went to was the Metropolitan Museum of art, the 3 artifacts that I chose was the Copper Ingot (Found in Cyprus), Tomb of Meketre, and the Inscribed Prism. Essay Comparative Artifact Analysis
syllabus Length: 23 pages (600900 words)
Essay Requirements
Visit a New York City Museum with a collection of artifacts from the ancient Near East or
Egypt. Take a tour through the collection and find at least three artifacts that you think can
inform your understanding of the culture of ancient Israel. Make sure to copy down any
information provided by the exhibit concerning the specific artifact.
Your essay should present these three artifacts and explain how they can help gain a
better understanding of ancient Israel.
General Guidelines for Essay
o Make sure to cite your sources for information you gather about the artifacts (i.e., the
exhibit description, museum catalog, textbook, encyclopedia, etc.).
o Your description of why these resources are helpful for understanding ancient Israel
should be more than a superficial comment. If you look at mummies, for example,
dont just say that they can help us understand Israelite ideas about death. Make some
actual connections between the mummies and Israelite ideas about death.
11.140.7
Copper ingot
Cypriot, Late Bronze Age, ca. 1450-1050 B.C.
Said to be from Asia Minor
Rogers Fund, 1911 (11.140.7)
Cyprus is thought to have been the main producer of copper
in the Late Bronze Age, although very few ingots, apart
from miniature votive ingots, have been found there. Ingots
of this characteristic shape were made only in the Late
Bronze Age and seem to be the usual form in which pure
copper was transported as a raw material to the ports of the
eastern Mediterranean. Copper was mixed with tin, usually
in a ten-to-one ratio, to make finished bronze objects such as
the adjacent stand (74.51.5684). The ingot’s irregular surface
was produced as the pure copper cooled in the open mold
in which the metal was cast. The sheer weight of the ingot,
approximately sixty-three pounds, is testimony to the large
scale of the copper industry at this time and the bulk quantities
of copper that were being exchanged. The discovery off the
coast of Anatolia at Ulu Burun of a Late Bronze Age shipwreck
with a cargo of over ten tons of Cypriot copper ingots provides
remarkable confirmation of the extensive international metals
trade in which Cyprus clearly played an important role.
Inscribed prism
Ceramic
Mesopotamia
7th century B.C.
Cylinder with cuneiform inscription
of Nebuchadnezzar, enumerating his
building activities
Ceramic
Mesopotamia
Neo-Babylonian period, 6th century B.C.
Lent by the Yale Babylonian Collection,
L.2001.3
Purchase, 1886
86.11.280
Stamp seal and modern impre
worshiper kneeling before a
mushhushsbu-dragon and a
Blue chalcedony
Southern Mesopotamia
Neo-Babylonian period,
Modeled style,
6th-5th century B.C.
Purchase, 1886
86.11.35
This unusual clay kudurru (boundary
stone), originally twelve-sided, records a
set of royal land grants made to members
of prominent Babylonian families. Among
the deities whose emblems are represented
above the inscribed portions of this object
are Nabu, Gula, Sin, Shamash, and Ishtar.
WA
ho chamber after partial removal of the blocking wall
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