A TELL EL-YAHUDIYEH BLACK BURNISHED TERRACOTTA JUGLET

Middle Bronze Age, 1730 – 1550 BCE.
Decorated with two punctured incised bands
and three half ovell lines between them
Comes with a certificate of authenticity and all required documents for export.

Shipped direct from the Holy Land.

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Description

Leontopolis (Egyptian: Ney-ta-hut) is the Greek name for the modern area of Tell el Yehudiye or Tell el-Yahudiya (Egyptian Arabic: Jewish Mound). It was an ancient city of Egypt in the 13th nome of Lower Egypt (the Heliopolite Nome), on the Pelusiac branch of the Nile. This site is known for its distinctive pottery known as Tell el-Yahudiyeh Ware.
In the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor (180–145 BC) a temple, modeled after that of Jerusalem, was founded by the exiled Jewish priest Onias IV. The Hebrew colony, which was attracted by the establishment of their national worship at Leontopolis, and which was increased by the refugees from the oppressions of the Seleucid kings in Judea, flourished there for more than three centuries afterward. After the outbreak of the Jewish War, the Leontopolite temple was closed in the first century CE, amid the general backlash against Judaism.