No glass? Well, that’s dumb. I wonder if the museum also keeps buckets of rare coins out in the open, too. You know, so people can get a good look at them.
Posted on 08/27/2024 4:44:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A 3,500-year-old jar has been accidentally smashed into pieces by a four-year-old boy during a trip to a museum in Israel.
The Hecht Museum in Haifa told the BBC the crockery dated back to the Bronze Age between 2200 and 1500BC - and was a rare artefact because it was so intact.
It had been on display near the entrance of the museum without glass, as the museum believes there is "special charm" in showing archaeological finds "without obstructions".
The jar was most likely originally intended to be used to carry local supplies, such as wine and olive oil. It predates the time of the Biblical King David and King Solomon and is characteristic of the Canaan region on the eastern Mediterranean coast.
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I hope it’s not “You break it, you bought it.”
How? I don’t even keep paper plates where a 4 year old could get them.
“Rare artifact because it was so intact”
Inspector Clouseau: “Not anymeaur!”
no more oil?
The museum could not have been nicer about it, but bottom line, the dad should have been watching his 4 year old much more closely. That would have been unlikely to happen when I was 4, late 1950s. I would have gotten my bare legs beaten with a switch from this honeysuckle bush in the back yard. Or maybe a leather belt would have done the talking.
I doubt it. I think the boy’s parents and perhaps even the boy himself was an anti-semite.
I think I’ve met that 4 year old numerous times. They’re poorly disciplined and think they can touch whatever they want. Kids would never have been so bold as to touch something like that years ago. Celebrating the kid by having him back like he’s some kind of hero is just stupid.
Hysterical over a mere blemish on the furniture.
No glass? Well, that’s dumb. I wonder if the museum also keeps buckets of rare coins out in the open, too. You know, so people can get a good look at them.
How? I don’t even keep paper plates where a 4 year old could get them.”
I don’t know why the parents brought the child there. He would have had no interest and of course would be bored and rambunctious.
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Intact, eh?
Four year olds have ways of fixing such ‘problems’…
Steinways aren’t priceless, just expensive.
Hey dumbass dad, supervise your brat.
Meh, if they have all the pieces, they can just glue it back together. Museums do that sort of thing all the time.
I was at the British Museum admiring the Elgin Marbles when a kid leaned against one of the pieces. I thought the security guard was going to stroke out.
That and the fact that the items were not behind glass and/or unreachable. Mind boggling unless it was intentional and the kid was used to break it for a type of vandalism?
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