MAKE A MEME View Large Image Levantine - Jar and Cover for Manuscript Rolls - Walters 482058 - Side A.jpg Between 1948 and 1956 about 80 intact manuscript rolls and more than 20 000 fragments were discovered in eleven caves at Qumran near the Dead Sea Known as the Dead ...
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Keywords: Levantine - Jar and Cover for Manuscript Rolls - Walters 482058 - Side A.jpg Between 1948 and 1956 about 80 intact manuscript rolls and more than 20 000 fragments were discovered in eleven caves at Qumran near the Dead Sea Known as the Dead Sea Scrolls they preserve parts of every book of the Hebrew Bible Old Testament except for Esther and represent the earliest existing Hebrew versions Jars such as this one also found in a cave near Qumran were used frequently by the ancient Jews to store manuscript rolls of parchment papyrus and copper ca 1st century BC terracotta cm 72 24 4 h x diam accession number 48 2058 29930 Government of Jordan Walters Art Museum 1952 by purchase through the Palestine Archaeological Museum at Jerusalem Museum purchase 1952 In Search of Ancient Treasure 40 Years of Collecting The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1978 place of origin Cain Feshkha in present-day Israel Walters Art Museum license Ancient Near East art in the Walters Art Museum Ancient Levant art Dead Sea Scrolls pots Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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