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![](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/collection_1.jpg)
These are some of the potsherds picked up at various locations in Israel by Galyn. |
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![Handles from Beth Shan. The dark handle is from a basalt cooking utensil and shows a Jewish presence in the city. If a clay cooking pot became unclean it had to be smashed. But a stone pot, such as the dark handled piece, could simply be purified in water to be reused if it became unclean.](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/beth_shan_handles.jpg)
Handles from Beth Shan. The dark handle is from a basalt cooking utensil and shows a Jewish presence in the city.
If a clay cooking pot became unclean it had to be smashed. But a stone pot, such as the dark handled piece,
could simply be purified in water to be reused if it became unclean. |
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![A handle from the site of the old Canaanite palace in Hazor that was destroyed and burnt by Joshua.](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/hazor_oldpalace_handle.jpg)
A handle from the site of the old Canaanite palace in Hazor that was destroyed and burnt by Joshua. |
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A decorative piece from a very fine, large bowl created in thin clay was picked up in the structural remains outside
the theatre in Beth Shan |
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Painted pieces picked up in Gezer, Beth-Shemesh, and Bethsaida
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![](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/jar_base_2.jpg) The base of a jar used by women to carry water. Found in Beth Shan. |
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![An image of a horse (front legs visible) carved into stone and used as decorative overlay. Picked up in Avdat.](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/horse_avdat.jpg)
An image of a horse (front legs visible) carved into stone and used as decorative overlay. Picked up in Avdat.
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![Pieces from Sepphoris](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/sepphoris.jpg)
Pieces from Sepphoris |
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![Pieces from Jericho](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/jericho.jpg)
Pieces from Jericho |
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![Pieces from En Harod where Gideon's men drank and latter broke their clay jars going into battle. Also a rock from the Serpantine Trail coming down the side of Masada. A small stone from Hezekiah's tunnel picked up under the city of David, the Jerusalem of the Old Testament.](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/en_harod.jpg)
Pieces from En Harod where Gideon's men drank and latter broke their clay jars going into battle.
Also a rock from the Serpantine Trail coming down the side of Masada.
A small stone from Hezekiah's tunnel picked up under the city of David, the Jerusalem of the Old Testament. |
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![Pieces from the Philistine city of Ashkelon](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/ashkelon.jpg)
Pieces from the Philistine city of Ashkelon |
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![Pieces from Hazor](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/hazor.jpg)
Pieces from Hazor |
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![Pieces from the governors seat in the Hippodrome in Caesarea on the coast](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/caesarea_hippodrome.jpg)
Pieces from the governors seat in the Hippodrome in Caesarea on the coast.
(The piece at the top left is a shell picked up from inside the remains of Herod's palace in the Mediterranean water.) |
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![Pieces from Bethsaida](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/Bethsaida.jpg)
Pieces from Bethsaida |
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![Pieces from Gezer](../images/israel_pictures/potsherds/gezer.jpg)
Pieces from Gezer |
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