[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin for the gnip, and it's a twofer. :^)

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Could be one of *those* topics.

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[Avoiding_Sulla]

It predates the time of the Biblical King David and King Solomon....

Based on their own estimates, it could predate those kings by more than 1000 years.

If they're presuming the public reader is too ignorant to be able to understand some other reference, why presume they can even place Solomon and David?

Averaging the estimate dates given for the vase (1800BC) places it about the time of the birth of Abraham.

Let's face it. It had survived quite a long time (about 4000 years) before the incompetent curator exposed it to danger.