Domestic artifacts: Qumran - 1st cent.

"And as they were eating, he took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them, and said,
"Take, this is my body."
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.
And he said to them,
"This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many..." "

Mk.14.22-25

Ceramic Jug: Qumran - 1st cent. Herodian oil-lamp: Qumran - 1st cent. Ceramic Bowl: Qumran - 1st cent. Wooden Bowl: Qumran - 1st cent.

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Ceramic Lamp (Herodian): height 4.3cm, length 10cm. (traces of palm-fibre wick were found in the lamp's nozzle).
Ceramic Jug: Height 19.5cm, diameter 14cm.
ceramic bowl: height 8.5cm, diameter 12.4cm.
Wooden bowl: height 4.9cm, diameter 26cm.
Excavated at Qumran since 1955.
Images: "Scrolls from the Dead Sea", A Sussman & R Peled.
Published by George Braziller Inc.
Copyright: 1993 Library of Congress.
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