{"id":281480,"date":"2016-11-23T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T19:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281480"},"modified":"2020-10-30T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:19:18","slug":"israel-unveils-bronze-age-thinker-figurine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/israel-unveils-bronze-age-thinker-figurine\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel unveils Bronze Age \u2018Thinker\u2019 figurine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And they say, \u201cIsrael unveils Bronze Age \u2018Thinker\u2019 figurine\u201d \u2026 How do they know that? More probably a non-thinking meditation like the one on this image depicting Maitreya in Japan\u2026 or was it a toothache (image on the article)?<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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A small figurine, almost 4,000 years old and sitting in a pensive pose, has been unveiled in Israel.<\/p>\n

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said that the thoughtful, hat-wearing figure was discovered in recent excavations in Yehud, east of Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

The ornament topped a jug in the Middle Bronze Age and was found in a grave.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Times of Israel compared the figure’s head-in-hands pose to The Thinker, the famous work by French sculptor Auguste Rodin.<\/p>\n

Yet at just 18cm (7in) tall, the Israeli discovery comes in 10 times smaller than Rodin’s famous bronze from the turn of the 20th Century.<\/p>\n

The IAA’s excavation director, Gilad Itach, said the piece was “unique” as it was the first such example found in Israel, noting an “impressive” attention to detail.<\/p>\n

He also said its inclusion in a grave would indicate that the deceased was a person of importance.<\/p>\n

Other offerings found nearby included daggers, arrowheads and an axe head.<\/p>\n

Mr Itach said it was hard to determine who created the mysterious figure, or who it was buried with, as there was no writing found at the scene.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-38080041<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: And they say, \u201cIsrael unveils Bronze Age \u2018Thinker\u2019 figurine\u201d \u2026 How do they know that? More probably a non-thinking meditation like the one on this image depicting Maitreya in Japan\u2026 or was it a toothache (image on the article)?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}