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Provenance: Ur, Iraq
Object Type: image - architecture
Commentary: "Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans." Genesis 11:29 (NRSV)
"Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran, an dhis daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there." Genesis 11:31 (NRSV)
Source: Phinney, D. Nathan Leander Keck slide collection
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