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In Jerusalem she made drawings of ceramics and restored terra-cottas, and worked as an architectural assistant.
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In Jerusalem she made drawings of ceramics and restored terra-cottas, and worked as an architectural assistant.
Personal Information for Theresa Goell Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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In Jerusalem she made drawings of ceramics and restored terra-cottas, and worked as an architectural assistant.
Women in Archaeology: Theresa Goell Jan 2008
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In Jerusalem she made drawings of ceramics and restored terra-cottas, and worked as an architectural assistant.
Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008
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At a depth of five feet I found one of those round twice-perforated terra-cottas with a stamp, in which there are Egyptian hieroglyphics; also a dozen of the same articles in the stamps of which are a crowned head, a bird, a dog's head, a flying man or an eagle and a stag.
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Also two terra-cotta funnels, at a depth of ten feet, with a letter which I have repeatedly met with on some of the terra-cottas.
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All that can be said of the first settlers is that they belonged to the Aryan race, as is sufficiently proved by the Aryan religious symbols met with in the strata of their ruins, both upon the pieces of pottery and upon the small curious terra-cottas with a hole in the centre, which have the form of the crater of a volcano or of a
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Further, there were some interesting terra-cottas, among which is a vessel, quite the form of a modern cask, and with a tube in the centre for pouring in and drawing off the liquid.
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Among other extremely curious terra-cottas I must also mention three pots with three rows of perforations; they have the usual handle on one side and three feet on the other; also three large vases with perforations right round, on all sides, from the bottom to the top; their use is a riddle to me; can they have served as bee-hives?
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It is extremely remarkable, but perfectly intelligible from the continual calamities which befel the town, that the civilization of all the four nations constantly declined; the terra-cottas, which show continuous _decadence_, leave no doubt of this.
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