Description: Mt. Ebal - Joshua's Altar Soil - Book of the Law of Moses - Israel - Holyland. Beautiful for Display, Arts, Crafts, Nice Gift.Size: 10ml (22mm x 50mm) clear glass bottle with cork. The Iron Age I Structure on Mt. Ebal, also known as the Mount Ebal's Altar, and Joshua's Altar, as featured in the Book of Joshua of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament).“..Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, “an altar of uncut stones..” (Joshua 8:30-31)Moses commanded the Israelites to conduct a national ceremony and proclaim the Curses on Mt. Ebal and the Blessings on Mt. Gerizim.“And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.” (Deuteronomy 11:29)The Mount Ebal site is situated on the northeastern spur of Mount Ebal, a place known as Northern el-Burnat. It is located northeast of Nablus and north of Tell Balata (biblical Shechem). Excavations, conducted by the University of Haifa and the Israel Exploration Society, lasted eight seasons between 1982 and 1989.The excavation found a large walled structure, seemingly built direct into the bedrock without a doorway or floor, and had been infilled by layers of stone, ash, and earth; on the southwest, two paved areas were found, split apart by a further wide wall higher at one end than the other and with a surrounding oval wall. Slowly burnt bones were found at the site, and after analysis were discovered to originate from bullocks, goats, and fallow deer.The upper part of the building was paved with medium-sized fieldstones. A small semicircular stone structure that provided shelter for shepherds in Samaria on rainy days was built on this pavement. Beneath it, were the remains of an Ottoman observation post from the First World War.During the first phase of the excavation, the stone pile was "peeled off," and below it, a 9 by 7-meter-long structure was discovered, adjacent to which were two paved stone courtyards, separated by a sloping wall (ramp) that rose to the top of the building. The entire structure and walls were built of fieldstones. The building rose to a height of about 4 meters, and was paved with fieldstones. No entrance to the building was discovered. The walls of the building were 1.4 meters wide. The interior of the building was filled with layers of ash and stones. Out of the outer frame of the building came two walls that did not meet towards its center. The walls were also submerged in layers of ash and stone. The structure was filled with layers of stone and ash. The ash layer was about 1.5 meters thick and clean ash, which included a large amount of bone ash. Pottery fragments from the Iron Age I, whole pottery vessels from that period, pieces of peeled plaster, worship vessels including incense vessels, thousands of kosher animal bones, fate cubes, two Egyptian scarabs and two earrings were discovered at the site. Baruch Brandl dated the scarabs to the last quarter of the 13th century BC, the time of Ramesses II. One scarab contains an ornament reminiscent of a Hyksos style and the other is engraved in a cartouche with the name of Thutmose III, which dates back to the 15th century BC, and according to the researcher, it is a memorial scarab issued by Ramesses II in memory of Thutmose. A trapezoidal stone seal dating to the end of the Late Bronze Age was also discovered at the site. The seal was engraved with lines and dots in a style that was also revealed on the handles of the pottery vessels that were brought to the site with the offerings to God.
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