The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . Water Carriers with Bottles. ivory, bone, porcelain, bronze, silver or gold, andalso, for the use of the people generally, of glazedpottery or common earthenware. As early asThothmes III, assumed to be the Pharaoh of theExodus (B. C. 1490), vases are known to haveexisted of a shape so elegant and of workmanshipso superior, as to show that the art was not, eventhen, in its infancy. Many o
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . Water Carriers with Bottles. ivory, bone, porcelain, bronze, silver or gold, andalso, for the use of the people generally, of glazedpottery or common earthenware. As early asThothmes III, assumed to be the Pharaoh of theExodus (B. C. 1490), vases are known to haveexisted of a shape so elegant and of workmanshipso superior, as to show that the art was not, eventhen, in its infancy. Many of the bronze vases found at Thebes andin other parts of Egypt are of a quality whichcannot fail to excite admiration, and which provesthe skill possessed by the Egyptians in the art ofworking and compounding metals. Their shapesare most various—some neat, some plain, somegrotesque; some in form not unlike our cream-jugs, others are devoid of taste as the wine bot-. i, 2. Gold 3. Cut Glass. 4. Earthenware. 5, 7. Porcelain. 6. Hard Stone. 8. Gold, with Plates and Bands. 9. Stone. 10. Alabaster, with Lid. ties of our cellars or the flower pots of our con-servatories. They had also bottles, small vasesand pots used for holding ointment or for otherpurposes connected with the toilet, which weremade of alabaster, glass, porcelain and hard specimens of these are in the British Mu-seum. (7) The perishable nature of skin bottles led, atan early period, to the employment of instrumentsof a more durable kind, and it is to be presumedthat the children of Israel would, during theirsojourn in Egypt, learn, among other arts prac-ticed by their masters, that of working in pottery- ware. Thus, as early as the days of the Judges(iv:ig; v:25), bottles or vases composed of someearthy material, and apparently of a superiormake, were in use, for, what in the fourth chap-ter is termed a bottle, is in the fifth designateda lordly dish. Isaiah (xxx:i4) expres
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