Credit: Yosef Garfinkel
License: CC-BY-SA-3.0
Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...
Comments: The Yarmukian Culture is a Neolithic culture of the ancient Levant. It was the first culture in Prehistoric Israel and one of the oldest in the Levant to make use of pottery. The Yarmukian derives its name from the Yarmouk River which flows near its type site at Sha'ar HaGolan, a kibbutz at the foot of the Golan Heights. The pictures are fromYosef Garfinkel excavations taken between 1989-1990 & 1998-2004
Credit: Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China
License: CC0 1.0
Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...
Comments: Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com
From ISBE: urth'-'-n, (cheres, yetser; ostrakinos):
These vessels were heat-resisting and were used for cooking and for boiling clothes (Leviticus 6:28; Leviticus 11:33; Leviticus 14:5; Leviticus 14:50). They were probably non-porous and took the place of the kidri or ma'ajin used in Syria today. A traveler in the interior of Palestine may still meet with the hospitality showed to David (2 Samuel 17:28). The generous natives brought not only gifts of food but the necessary vessels in which to cook it. An earthen vessel was used to preserve a land deed (Jeremiah 32:14).
Figurative: In Jeremiah 19:1 breaking of an earthen vessel was symbolical of the destruction of Jerusalem. These vessels were also used to symbolize the commonness (Lamentations 4:2) and frailness of our bodies (2 Corinthians 4:7).
.jpg){kind=link}