Group of four. Length: 5 - 2.5 inches.
AUCTION 75 |
Thursday, March 08th,
2018 at 1:00 PM
Auction of Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Antiquities, Ceremonial Objects & Graphic Art
Lot 300
ANCIENT STONE FLINT BLADES
Group of four. Length: 5 - 2.5 inches.
Est: $500 - $700
The Torah (Shemoth 4:25) records that Zipporah (wife of Moshe) took a sharp stone (“Tzor”) and circumcised her son. In the Book of Joshua (5:2), God instructs Yehoshua to circumcise all Jews who were born during the forty years of wandering in the desert. The Hebrew term for these knives is: “Charvoth-Tzurim.”
These are the ancient flint knives that the Torah is referring to.
<<Provenance:>> Formerly in the collection of the American archaeologist Dr. Donald Brown (1908-2014).