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The psalmist expresses the symbolism of incense and prayer: “Let my prayer rise like incense before you; the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.” (Psalm 141:1). In the Gospel, Zechariah is in the temple at the time of the incense offering (Luke 1) and the gifts the Magi offered to the Christ Child included gold, frankincense ...
A censer, incense burner, perfume burner or pastille burner is a vessel made for burning incense or perfume in some solid form. They vary greatly in size, form, and material of construction, and have been in use since ancient times throughout the world.
The other common type of hieroglyph for the burning of incense, is the incense burner: arm (hieroglyph). In later periods of Ancient Egypt it was often made of bronze. In portrayed scenes with the arm, the offerer, most often the pharaoh offering to the god, is shown adding incense pellets from a small storage box at the base of the arm.
English: Drawing of an incense burner made of bronze, which Richard Lepsius obtained from the Sheikh of Soba, who claims that it was discovered in ruins of Soba. It bears a damaged Coptic inscription.
This incense burner was discovered near a collapsed ancient earthen construction facility near the Alma-Atinka River in Malaya, south of Almaty, in 1979. It consists of a round tray and a conical openwork base. Sculptures of bulls with humps on their backs are lined up along the edge of the incense burner.
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