Posted on 08/28/2024 5:42:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A curious four-year-old boy visiting the Hecht Museum in Israel with his family inadvertently smashed a jar that predates the time of Biblical main characters King David and King Solomon.
The boy’s father told the BBC that his son was simply “curious about what was inside,” so he pulled at the large piece of ceramic crockery to get a better look.
To the family’s credit, they quickly owned up to the boy’s folly and spoke to a nearby security guard. To the museum’s credit, Dr. Inbal Rivlin, the institution’s general director, invited the boy and his family to visit the museum again and to see the repaired jar. According to a museum spokesperson, the invitation was accepted and the family will return to the museum this weekend for a personal tour.
The jar was on display without the protection of a glass barrier near the museum’s entrance. The museum’s founder, Dr. Reuven Hecht, believed that the public should be able to appreciate relics without the encumbrance of glass walls and barriers. A representative of the museum told ARTnews that, “despite the rare incident with the jar, the Hecht Museum will continue this tradition.”
A restorer has already been called in, Roy Shafir of the University of Haifa’s School of Archaeology and Marine Cultures. Since the jar had been on display and has plenty of photographic documentation, the museum expects the conservation work to be without issue.
The jar is dated to the Middle Bronze Age, between 2200-1500 BCE, and originally was intended for the storage and transport of local supplies like wine and olive oil. Similar jars have been found in archaeological excavations, the museum said, but most were found broken or incomplete.
They have to stop blaming the child. I was at the muses d or say w hub
He kept pointing to stuff like the birth of versus Ritchie there. As if since it’s not encased for idiots why not ruin ebverything and touch it
I said you know your CO back in deutchland would be super pissed if you ended up on the front page of le monde for screwing up a Botticelli
That was the ticket. Now I go with my sisters or alone.
FIFY
“ muses d or saY”
Grr
Musee d’Orsay.
“” Hecht Museum will continue this tradition “”
At the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, where I work as a volunteer docent, we have Nixon's parents' copy of The White House Cook Book (1887), However, we have on display another copy that the Nixons didn't own and keep the original locked away so as to protect it from light damage and other hazards. The original is brought out only on special occasions.
No big deal, you can that they have more of them.
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Because despite its age, it isn’t particularly unusual otherwise. It makes me cringe a bit for anything that old, but there are other jars like it, and it probably was reconstructed already.
If the museum is set up like a petting zoo, what else would they expect to happen.
LOL, me, yeah, ahead of the curve, good one. :^D Thanks DiW.
The ancient jar smashed by a 4-year-old is back on display at an Israeli museum after repair
Melanie Lidman
September 11, 2024
A rare Bronze-Era jar accidentally smashed by a 4-year-old visiting a museum was back on display Wednesday after restoration experts were able to carefully piece the artifact back together.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-jar-haifa-museum-bronze-age-ancient-4076265399c7514c2e079b411893efa8
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