And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Drinking cup in the shape of a fist, 1400 - 1380 BC. Likely used in rituals tied to the Hittite weather god Tarhunna.
I wonder what they used it for after it was drained?
ReplyDeleteMaybe it was used for libations.
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