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34-20-384

From: Israel | Beth Shean

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 34-20-384
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Israel | Beth Shean
Archaeology Area Level XII, Room 1927
Period Early Bronze III
Date Made 2700-2300 BCE
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ceramic
Description

Flat base, sides expanding sharply to shoudler. Fragmentary and incomplete. Grey ware burning brown, brown slip on the interior, red slip on the exterior highly burnished. Encircling the shoulder is a cream coloured reserved band with a zigzag decoration in a burnished red slip. In each of the triangles formed by the zigzag line is a dot also of red slip but not burnished. Handmade.

Credit Line Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1934
Other Number 33-11-558 - Field No SF

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