An Egyptian Bronze Situla, Early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 4th - 3rd century BCE Medium - Clay he believed it to be

he believed it to be "proof of the celebrated locust worship by pagan Philistine and Canaanite priests

and was a Trustee Emeritus of the Archaeological Institute of America

The symbolic relationship between birds and human beings was

king's scribe Paser

An Egyptian Bronze Situla, Early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 4th - 3rd century BCE Medium - Clay he believed it to beCast using the lost wax method, this fine, tapering vessel features a rolled rim, and rounded bottom with knobbed base. It is decorated in raised relief, the wide central register with a dedicant holding a lotus flower staff next to an offering altar, making offerings to the three deities, Isis with cow horn crown, Nephthys, and Amun Ra, each holding the life sign ankh in their right hand and a was scepter in their left, the lower register with