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Antiqued Stone
It is said that is takes character to understand stones and this is because the stone itself has power and has character. It is nearly impossible to imitate the richness absorbed over thousands of years.
We give you the buyers, authentic stones that have been gathered and chosen carefully, from various locations in the ancient Middle East.
The stones we choose are breathtaking in their beauty and filled with a magic unique to your home
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Name: Nevo "And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nevo, to the top of Pisgah" Deuteronomy 34
Quarry Location: East to Shomron Mountains
Shades: Mustard
Appearance: Clay like
Size: Up to 50 cm, Width 2-5
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Name: GRIZIM
"Then Joshua built an alter... half of them in front of mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of mount Ebal" Joshua 8:30-33
Quarry Location: South of the biblical city of Shchem, a particularly hard dolomitic stone
Shades: strong cream, yellow, yellow-red
Appearance: elegant, rounded corners and delicate
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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Name: EDOM
"And he put garrisons in Edom;"..., Second Samuel 8:14
Quarry Location: Beit-El
Shades: strong clean yellow and gray mixed with yellow
Appearance: modern mosaic and processed to look ancient
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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Name: MEGIDO
"Ahilud, in Taanach .. Megiddo, and all Beth-Shean .. beneath Jezreel, from Beth-Shean"... First Kings 4:12
Quarry Location: Jezreel - North Shomron meeting
Shades: white, off white, reddish, light gray.
Appearance: ultimately ancient
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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Name: (Type A) SEBASTIA
"and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the lord" Joshua 24:26
Quarry Location: around the biblical city of Svesti which is near the Shomron
Shades: yellowish and calm white
Appearance: clean, modestly ancient
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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Name: MICHMASH
"And I will raise up in his ruins, And I will build it as in the days of old;" Amos 9:11
Quarry Location: north east of Jerusalem
Shades: grayish, cream, dark yellow, light yellow, orange.
Appearance: wild, roundish texture, occasionally with interlaced hieroglyphics recreated on the stone.
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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Name: (Type B) SEBASTIA
"and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the lord" Joshua 24:26
Quarry Location: around the biblical city of Svesti which is near the Shomron
Shades: yellowish and calm white
Appearance: clean, modestly ancient
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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Name: METZADA
"David went up from thence, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-Gedi" First Samuel 24:1
Quarry Location: lower Beit-Lechem
Shades: white, off white, light gray, yellow, deep yellow
Appearance: stone with tap marks
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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Name: ADURAYIM
"a land whose stones are iron, and out of whoes hills thou mayest dig brass" Deuteronomy 8:9
Quarry Location: south east of the Hevron mountains
Shades: beige, yellowish beige, grayish, matt red.
Appearance: stone with a flattened look
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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Name:YERICHO
"buildeth this city, even Jericho; with the lost of first born shall he lay the foundation thereof, and with the lost of his yongest son shall he set up the gates of it" Joshua 2:26
Quarry Location: west of the biblical city of Jerico
Shades: moderate shades of gray, beige, white, honey brown.
Appearance: calm ancient look.
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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Name: BEIT-EL
"Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went in, and came unto Beth-El" Judges 20:26
Shades: off white, very modest yellow.
Appearance: calm delicate and ancient
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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Name: TARSHISH
"and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tashish"... Jonah 1:3
Quarry Location: biblical Shchem
Shades: delicate specked yellow
Appearance: calm aristocratic
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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Name: KRETIM
"Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea-coast, The nation of the Cherethites!"..., Zephaniah 2:5
Quarry Location: Shchem
Shades: grayish with yellow spots
Appearance: classy
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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Name: EFRAIM
"Now there was a man of Ramathaim-Zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim"... First Samuel 1:1
Quarry Location: east lower mount Ephraim in the Shomron
Shades: grayish yellow, blended with red.
Appearance: uniquely ancient
Size: comes in various sizes and lengths
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