A four-year-old boy has by accident smashed a 3,500-year-old pitcher on the Hecht Museum, a part of Haifa College, in northern Israel. The boy’s father advised the BBC that in a current journey his son “pulled the jar barely” as a result of he was “interested in what was inside”, inflicting it to fall.
In accordance with the museum the pitcher is typical of the Canaan area and dates again to the Center/late Bronze Age, from between 1,150-1,500 B.C, predating the times of King David and Solomon. It was designed for storing and transporting native produce, primarily wine and olive oil.
Whereas related jugs have been present in archaeological excavations, most have been damaged or incomplete—the pitcher displayed on the Hecht Museum was discovered intact.
In a press release posted on Instagram, the museum says: “There are circumstances by which show gadgets are deliberately broken, and such circumstances are handled very significantly and should contain calling the police; this isn’t the case right here.” The kid was reportedly invited again to the exhibition together with his household for an organised tour following the incident.
The museum provides: “As a part of the imaginative and prescient of the [museum] founder Dr. Reuven Hecht, the Hecht Museum places particular emphasis on making archaeological gadgets accessible to most people… the gadgets are offered with out limitations and usually are not behind glass partitions.”
The piece will probably be restored by specialist Roy Shapir from the college’s college of archaeology, who will confer with photographic documentation of the artefact .
