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| Title |
Moshe Dayan |
| Number |
55368 |
| Size |
7.5" H |
| Date |
c. 1500 B.C. |
| Place |
Samaria |
| Category |
Judaica |
| Price |
$2,900.00 |
A twin-handled Pilgrim Flask from 1500 BC Samaria, owned, identified and signed by Israeli General Moshe Dayan
Pale orange terra cotta Pilgrim Flask, 7.5” high, 14” circumference. Signed in black at the lower edge of the 18” perimeter: “M. Dayan. Samaria. BC 1500” in English. Fine condition. From a prominent Beverly Hills estate. Ex: The Moshe Dayan collection, 1970.
In his 1976 autobiography, “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life,” Israel’s greatest military leader writes of finding “a vessel fashioned in the period of the Hebrew kings, dating back to the ninth century B.C. … These pottery vessels, often soot laden or entangled in roots, lie as they were left thousands of years ago. They might be prosaic domestic utensils used in ordinary homes in some town or village that was destroyed in battle, or perhaps a cruse with its final offering of oil, and a lamp to light the way of the departed in a family tomb. It is these ordinary articles that provide the bond, intimate, personal, with the wonderful world of antiquity, a world that has fallen silent but has not vanished … On a pitcher, particularly at the point where handle joins body, it is often possible to detect the thumbprint of the potter and sometimes even the print of his fingernail … I have no other hobby or sport. Most free hours are spent on these antiquities…”
In addition to finding antiquities, Gen. Dayan also bought them for his collection. Bob Wiedrich in his April 19, 1971, column “Tower Ticker” in the “Chicago Tribune,” described Dayan as “Israel’s foremost collector of archeological artifacts” and notes that “Gen. Dayan makes a practice of paying only by personal check when he acquired treasures of ancients from Arab shopkeepers in Old Jerusalem…”
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