The Development of Palestine Exploration Being the Ely Lectures for 1903
The book The Development of Palestine Exploration Being the Ely Lectures for 1903 was written by author Bliss, Frederick Jones, 1859-1937 Here you can read free online of The Development of Palestine Exploration Being the Ely Lectures for 1903 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Development of Palestine Exploration Being the Ely Lectures for 1903 a good or bad book?
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The Roman and Byzantine lamps known to us are closed, but I do not dare affirm that the open lamp ever fell into disuse. But each age has types differentiated from those of all others by cer- tain characteristics. L Among these we may mention the type of glaze or burnishing ; peculiar surface mark- ings; above all, some form of decoration. Thanks to the recent excavations, we now know how vessels were ornamented in pre-Israelite times. 2 Race-individu- ality is also shown in extraordinary shape...s. The 1 Some of the pottery found in our excavations is placed in the Constantinople Museum. The larger portion is arranged in a small Museum in the Government School at Jerusalem near Herod's Gate. Representative types of the different periods are figured on fifty plates in Excavations in Palestine, 1898-1900, hy Bliss and Macalister. 3 See Plates 3G-44. THE EXPLORATION OF THE FUTURE 297 ledge-handle or wavy handle, stuck on to the side of a jar like a shelf, characterizes the earliest pre-Is- raelite ware in Palestine.
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