Cedris Laboni Pure Oil From Phoenician Ship Museum (2/16/2023)

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We love the stories of Jesus. Every good story has a place and a setting. Luke understood that as his Gospel began with the very important telling of Jesus’ coming into the world. Luke introduces us to Mary by writing that the “angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth”. To this day, we often refer to Christ as “Jesus of Narareth”.

We know that Jesus learned from Joseph how to work wood. Any connection to Jesus is a good connection for believing Christians. We believe in Christ and we want to know more about his life. We want to learn more about Galillee. We want to learn more about how the Cedar of Lebanon connects to the Upper Galilee.

UPPER GALILEE AND THE PRODUCTION OF BRANDED PHOENICIAN CEDAR OIL

Our friend, Ghassen Nouira from Carthage, Tunisia, is the world’s leading expert on the production of royal purple dye using the ancient methods of his people.

We have near the west bank of the Upper Mississippi River the largest collection of Cedar of Lebanon logs in America.

Ghassen brought to our attention a recent study that American scholars have just finished - “Phoenician Cedar Oil from Amphoriskoi at Tel Kedesh.” We quote from the study:

“Archaeologists and historians have routinely attributed “branded” goods to particular regions and cultural groups, often without rigorous analysis. Phoenician cedar oil is perhaps one of the best known examples from antiquity. Hellenistic Tel Kedesh in the Upper Galilee region of the Levant is particularly relevant for these discussions by virtue of its strategic role as a border settlement in Phoenicia during one of the most dynamic periods in ancient history.”

We now have about 50,000 lbs of logs that came from the largest Cedar of Lebanon that ever grew in our country and that was at the Tyler Arboretum near the birthplace of our country. We have moved the logs to Iowa and they will now become part of the restoration of the world’s oldest ship replica that has crossed the Atlantic Ocean. We love the fact that these logs will connect our 600 BC Phoenician Ship Replica from the Old World to the New Word.

We estimate that we will have about 10,000 lbs of sawdust, chips and bark from the precious cedar logs. We have already a distiller to recover the oils from the sawdust and chips that went to the floor of the mill when the woodworkers sawed the logs.

Yesterday we began to experiement with the cedar sawdust to determine how we can get the famous oils that were so highly prized by the Egyptian priests in their preparations of bodies of the Pharoahs for burial. The pleasant fragrance came from the sawdust confirming that our logs are rich in those oils that were so important to the history of the Upper Galille during the time of Jesus.

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The true Cedar of Lebanon is known as Cedrus libani. The Cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) is a protected tree and there is no essential oil available anywhere except Lebanon in a little apothecary shop and soon from the Phoenician Ship Museum in Montrose, Iowa. Today from the sawdust that came from the milling of the Tyler Aroboretum Cedar of Lebanon we have distilled the first 100 ml of Cedrus libani oil. These supplies are very limited, and it are extremely expensive. We welcome serious inquiries. The pure cedar oil comes from the chips and dust that are associated with the construction of the world’s oldest ship replica that has crossed the Atlantic.

The smell is sweet, fresh, piney cedar, camphorus, slight menthol but creamy full-bodied essential oil. It is like smelling an ancient forest in the bottle. A very distinct smell.

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Excavating Tel Kedesh

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Excavating Tel Kedesh

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Excavating Tel Kedesh

We are pleased to note that many American scholars in cooperation with the Hebrew University Expedition To Qedesh In The Galilee were involved with the field work and reports from this site. We intend to reach out to these Americans to learn more about how the ancient people of Upper Galilee produced and branded the oils that they extracted from the Cedars of Lebanon.

We want to take advise from these researchers so that we can bring to the world Phoenician Cedar Oil that comes from trees that grew large at the birthplace of America.

Abstract

Archaeologists and historians have routinely attributed “branded” goods to particular regions and cultural groups, often without rigorous analysis. Phoenician cedar oil is perhaps one of the best-known examples from antiquity. Hellenistic Tel Kedesh in the Upper Galilee region of the Levant is particularly relevant for these discussions by virtue of its strategic role as a border settlement in Phoenicia during one of the most dynamic periods in ancient history. As a concise contribution to these discussions, we present here an interdisciplinary analysis of amphoriskoi found with ca. 2,000 impressed sealings from the archive complex of the Persian-Hellenistic Administrative Building. While the building was constructed under the Achaemenids and occupied in both the Ptolemaic and Seleucid eras, the archive was in use only under the Seleucids in the first half of the of the 2nd century b.c.e. Blending organic residue analysis with archaeological and textual data has allowed us to identify with certainty one of the value-added goods most closely attached to ancient Phoenicia, true cedar oil from Cedrus libani. This discovery not only empirically verifies this well-known association for the first time, but also provides a rich context in which to test our assumptions about culturally-branded goods, the role they played in participant societies, and the mechanisms and systems in place that facilitated their production, use, and export.

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Cedar of Lebanon at Birthplace of America, Tyler Arboretum.

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The Flag of Lebanon

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Phoenicia - World’s Oldest Ship Replica Crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

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Cedars of Lebanon at the Phoenicia Ship Museum in Montrose, Iowa.

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Offloading Cedar of Lebanon Logs at Phoenician Ship Museum, January 30, 2023.

 

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