El Museo Jordano
Museo nacional de historia y cultura de Jordania. Más de 2.000 artefactos, incl. estatuas Ain Ghazal, las figuras humanas de gran escala más antiguas; tallas nabateas, rollos del Mar Muerto
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Edad del Bronce medio II (aprox 1.650-1.550 a.C.)
Madera (reconstrucción) y marfil
H 13.5 cm, W 10.5 cm, D 15.5 cm
Tabaqat Fahl/Pella, norte del Valle del Jordán
The ivories decorating this box were excavated in 1984. The wood of the box had decayed but it was possible to reconstruct it from the positions of the ivories upon discovery, and by comparisons to contemporary Egyptian boxes.
The main panel on the lid has two lions with their paws on the heads of two intertwined disc the cobras. Above is the winged sun symbol of the Egyptian god Horus, while the sides have inlays in the form of the Eye of Horus. Next to the knob for closing the box is a viper snake. The free use of the Egyptian symbols, however, indicates that the carver was not Egyptian. The box is probably a product of Syro-Palestinian coast, noting that a species of small elephants was native to Syria up to the first millennium BC.
(De un texto en el Museo Jordano)
© Foto: Haupt & Binder
Museo nacional de historia y cultura de Jordania. Más de 2.000 artefactos, incl. estatuas Ain Ghazal, las figuras humanas de gran escala más antiguas; tallas nabateas, rollos del Mar Muerto