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Rare Syro-Hittite Clay Jar with a Head of Fertility Goddess on each Handle Period :2nd Millennium BC Measurements: Height: 17 cm (6.5 Inch) - Diameter: 18 cm (7 Inch) Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored The Hittites (also Hethites) and Children of Heth, translating are the second of the eleven Canaanite nations in the Hebrew Bible. They are purportedly descended from one Heth a son of Canaan, son of Ham, and they are mentioned in Genesis as having sold land to Abraham. The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia ca. the 18th century BC. The Hittite empire reached its height ca. the 14th century BC, encompassing a large part of Anatolia, north-western Syria about as far south as the mouth of the Litani River (a territory known as Amqu), and eastward into upper Mesopotamia. After ca. 1180 BC, the empire disintegrated into several independent "Neo-Hittite" city-states, some surviving until as late as the 8th century BC Idols are the first representation of the human form, perhaps the first sculpture of the ancient world. Images dating from prehistoric times have been found in stone and clay, and by the Neolithic period, idol worship was a major component of religion in the ancient Near East. 1 Kings 11:1 - From what other nations did Solomon "love women"? Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, Hittite. *********** Price Including : 1- Shipping " one week delivery 3- export approval from the Antiquities Authority in Israel 4- certificate of authenticity.
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