'Ain Samiya goblet

Silver cup from the Middle Bronze Age I cult March 2025 31 59 3 N 35 19 59 E title thumb|A flat rendering of the scenes depicted on the Ain Samiya Goblet thumb|Khafaje plaque with similar iconography found in Mesopotamia from the Isin-Larsa period around the same time as the goblet The 'Ain Samiya Goblet is a silver cup from the Middle Bronze Age I (2300-2000 BC), found in a tomb at Ain Samiya near modern Ramallah. It was discovered in 1970 at Khirbet el-'Aqibat, located just before Ein Samiya on the road to Kafr Malik.Shantur Bakizah Labadi Y. Tomb 204 at 'Ain-Samiya Israel Exploration Journal Israel Exploration Society 21 2/3 1971 0021-2059 27925264 73–77 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27925264 2023-05-29Yeivin Z. A Silver Cup from Tomb 204a at 'Ain-Samiya Israel Exploration Journal Israel Exploration Society 21 2/3 1971 0021-2059 27925265 78–81 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27925265 2023-05-29 An extensive cemetery had been previously known to cover three adjacent hills: Khirbet el-'Aqibat, Khirbet Samiya and Dhahr el-Mirz, the latter of which had been excavated in the 1960s by Paul W. Lapp, the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. It depicts a double-headed god with an animal body planting crops and the dead body of a serpent, parts of whom are being held by two male figures. The scenes are purported to depict a proto version of the Babylonian creation epic, the Enuma Elish and the defeat of Tiamat by the Babylonian patron deity, Marduk.https://books.google.com/books?id=PDkuiPhZJr0C&dq=Ain+Samiya+Goblet&pg=PA125 Mundkur Balaji 1983 The Cult of the Serpent: An Interdisciplinary Survey of Its Manifestations and Origins Albany State University of New York Press 125 0-87395-631-1 The goblet demonstrates clear influences from Mesopotamia on Proto-Canaanite culture and shares other parallels with contemporary depictions like the Khafaje plaque.Yadin Y. Yigael Yadin 1971 A Note on the Scenes Depicted on the 'Ain-Samiya Cup https://www.jstor.org/stable/27925266 Israel Exploration Journal 21 2/3 82–85 27925266 0021-2059https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/198009 2022-04-06 Rare goblet: Ein Samiya, near Ramallah Israel Museum en 2022-04-20 References Category:Babylon Category:Bronze Age Category:Biblical archaeology Category:Mesopotamian mythology