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Ornate Bronze Rod (2nd – 7th Cent. CE)

Many bronze rods, simple and ornate, were discovered in the Temple Mount’s soil. These rods were used in a variety of ways, such as applying kohl and other cosmetics, or as tools in the doctor’s and the apothecary’s bags. While complete examples are easily recognizable, many broken bits, showing only the decorated ends of rods, can’t be assigned a particular usage.
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Double-Sided Ivory Comb (Ottoman Period)

A large fragment of a two-sided composite comb. It is a center segment with two iron rivets on one edge, and two rivet holes on the opposite. These rivets were used to connect these segments to the segments flaking it. On one side of the comb nine thick spaced teeth were partially preserved, and on the other side at least 16 thin dense teeth can be counted.

Ottoman Smoking Pipes (16th – Early 20th Cent. CE)

Tobacco pipes are a common find in any excavation of sites from the last centuries. Smoking pipes did exist before-hand, but only became truly popular after American settlers and explorers brought tobacco back to the Old World in the 16th century. The pipe took the world, and the Ottoman Empire by storm, and many decorated pipe bowls were molded out of clay, and attached to a wooden reed stem. The decorated bowls feature floral and geometric motifs, and some were inscribed. These pipes come from workshops throughout the Ottoman Empire, including the dozens of workshops which operated in Jerusalem.

“Candlestick” Oil Lamp (6th – 8th Cent. CE)

A "Candlestick" Lamp, featuring geometric decorations, with visible soot on the lamp’s nozzle. 6th–8th century CE.