Credit: Rogers Fund, 1903. Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Comments: Etruscan Iron fire-tongs. Late 4th or early 3rd century B.C.
Credit: Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China
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Comments: Bronze Trident & Tongs for Sacrificial Offerings, 14th-13th C. BC. Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
Credit: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
License: Public Domain
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Comments: Bronze Tongs. Between circa 1000 and circa 650 B.C.
Credit: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
License: Public Domain
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Comments: Ritual Tongs in the Shape of Human Hands and Arms. Egypt, probably New Kingdom (1569 - 1081 BCE) or later.
From ISBE: tongz (melqachayim): This word is, where it occurs in the King James Version and the English Revised Version, with two exceptions, changed in the American Standard Revised Version into "snuffers" (Exodus 25:38; Numbers 4:9; 2 Chronicles 4:21; see SNUFFERS), The exceptions are 1 Kings 7:49, "tongs of gold," and Isaiah 6:6, "taken with the tongs from off the altar."
In Isaiah 44:12, where another word (ma`atsadh) is used, "the smith with the tongs" of the King James Version is changed in the Revised Version (British and American) into "the smith maketh an axe" (compare Jeremiah 10:3).
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