Tag: Hellenistic bronze incense shovel

The tapered head, flattened bill and graceful curve of the neck are unquestionably that of a duck. The bird’s head decorates a small, 2,200-year-old bronze incense shovel found during this summer’s dig at a Hellenistic-era site near the Sea of Galilee, and its ancient owners may be the key to an investigation into how and when ancient Judeans populated the Galilee.

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Elegant 2,200-Year-Old Hellenistic Bronze Incense Shovel Unearthed

MessageToEagle.com | November 17, 2015

MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists working at the ruins of Khirbet el-Eika this summer, a site west of the Sea of Galilee, discovered a Hellenistic bronze incense shovel that might help

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