Special Display: Buried in Glass
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November 15 2022
Curator: Dr. Ruth Jackson-Tal
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Designers: Netanel Dahan and Kamea Devons
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Glass Pavilion, Bronfman Archaeology Wing
The jar-shaped urns exhibited here were used mainly by members of the upper classes to store the cremated remains of the deceased. Cremation was widely practiced among the pagan populations of the north western Roman Empire during the Early Roman Period, but was never adopted in the East.
One of the vessels on display is covered with lead and equipped with a lead lid, making it a rare example of the type.
Western Europe, 1st–2nd century CE, glass and lead
Gift of the Benzian Family, Lucerne, and the Silver Family,
Jerusalem and Toronto
Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem by Zohar Shemesh
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