Tessera

B9424

From: Syria | Palmyra

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B9424
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Syria | Palmyra
Archaeology Area Urn between basket (?) and jar
Section Near Eastern
Materials Terracotta
Inscription Language Hebrew Language
Description

CBS Register: Object in clay (medal, stuck in memory of the dead?) with inscription.

PBS XIV: Round clay tessera from Palmyra, 20 x 20 x 3 ½ mm. Acquired, 1891. The face has an amphora between a pitcher and a basket below a star with a crown of two laurel branches around. The reverse has a necklace of twin beads in lent form alternation with a rhomb around a name. “Bel protects.”

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition Purchase, 1891
Other Number PBS XIV: 1025 - Other Number | P264793 - CDLI Number

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