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Hospitality


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Masters greet each other effusively at a meeting on the edge of an oasis in Sinai. An early photograph.

Greeting
Masters greet each other effusively at a meeting on the edge of an oasis in Sinai. An early photograph..

A bar in Roman Osia, reconstructed and as it remains in an early photograph. This is a drinking shop, and the remains reveal the bar and a broken counter with a sink below it.

Bar
A bar in Roman Osia, reconstructed and as it remains in an early photograph. This is a drinking shop, and the remains reveal the bar and a broken counter with a sink below it..

Villagers who have been invited to a feast by a wealthy sheik. Guests eat in relays and the common dish is frequently refilled as the feast progresses. An early photograph.

Common
Villagers who have been invited to a feast by a wealthy sheik. Guests eat in relays and the common dish is frequently refilled as the feast progresses. An early photograph..

Meals are eaten seated round a common dish. Sometimes they dip a crust of bread into the food if this is of a soft or liquid nature - such as curded milk or broth.

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Meals are eaten seated round a common dish. Sometimes they dip a crust of bread into the food if this is of a soft or liquid nature - such as curded milk or broth.. Pieces of meat or portions of savoury rice are scooped out of the platter with the fingers. An early photograph.

Members of a Samaritan family in Palestine are gathered for their Passover feast round the dish of lamb seasoned with bitter herbs. An early photograph.

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Members of a Samaritan family in Palestine are gathered for their Passover feast round the dish of lamb seasoned with bitter herbs. An early photograph..

Anointing a guest

Anoint
Anointing a guest.

Unleavened bread

Bread
Unleavened bread.

Assyrian cup

Cup
Assyrian cup.

Coin of Claudius, struck in 41/42 AD after a famine. Left shows a grain measure.

Famine
Coin of Claudius, struck in 41/42 AD after a famine. Left shows a grain measure..

Locusts, prepared for eating - from an Assyrian illustration. Locusts were eaten throughout the middle east - cf Mt.3.4, Mk.1.6.

Locusts
Locusts, prepared for eating - from an Assyrian illustration. Locusts were eaten throughout the middle east - cf Mt.3.4, Mk.1.6..

Reclining at a Roman Triclinium for meals

Recline
Reclining at a Roman Triclinium for meals.

Reclining at a Roman Triclinium for meals

Recline
Reclining at a Roman Triclinium for meals.

Reclining at a Roman Triclinium for meals

Recline
Reclining at a Roman Triclinium for meals.
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Egyptian servant carrying food dishes

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Egyptian servant carrying food dishes.

Assyrian meal, sitting on chairs at a table

Sitting
Assyrian meal, sitting on chairs at a table.

Egyptian banquet, sitting on chairs at a table

Sitting
Egyptian banquet, sitting on chairs at a table.

Wine skin - cf Mt.9.17, Mk.2.22, Lk.5.37

Wine
Wine skin - cf Mt.9.17, Mk.2.22, Lk.5.37.