Toilet seat taken from the House of Ahiel (IMAGE)

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Toilet seat taken from the House of Ahiel

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The toilet seat taken from the House of Ahiel, excavated to the south of Jerusalem’s Old City. A domestic building made up of seven rooms, it would have housed an upper-class family at the time. Date of construction is hard to pin down, with some placing it around the 8th century BCE.

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F. Vukasavovic

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