Bronze laver (Temple)

[3] Much greater detail is elaborated for the description of the supporting bases (Hebrew: Mekonoth) for the lavers.

[12] The ten lavers are described by the bible as being placed around the Temple building itself, five on the north side and the other five on the south.

This is a redundant act which was the purpose of the cast sea, thus the concluding statement of Josephus, saying that these laverns were for cleansing the entrails of the sacrificed animals, and their feet.

In the late 19th century, bronze chariots were discovered in Cyprus which had a remarkable similarity to the biblical description of the bases of the lavers.

[3] Max Ohnefalsch-Richter: Kypros, Die Bibel und Homer: Beiträge zur Cultur-, Kunst- u. Religionsgeschichte des Orients im Alterthume, Berlin, 1893 online edition, Taf.