Two Cases of Discrimination

Last summer, a kernos was found in a field of an Israeli kibbutz. A kernos is a hollow pottery ring about 12 inches in diameter with various hollow pottery objects sitting on the ring and attached to it. Six objects originally perched on the ring of the kernos which turned up last summer, of which four remain—two birds, a chalice and a pomegranate. Kernoi are rare finds anytime, but this one is especially valuable because it is one of the most nearly complete such vessels ever discovered. It dates to the Iron I period and is 3,000 years old. […]