Tablet

29-108-602.1

Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery

From: Israel | Beth Shean

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 29-108-602.1
Current Location Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display
Provenience Israel | Beth Shean
Archaeology Area Level II, Room 1055, Byzantine reservoir
Period Byzantine
Date Made 300-700 CE
Section Near Eastern
Materials Lead
Description

In 2 fragments. Thin sheet, rolled when found and originally rectangular. Possibly an imprecation tablet. Incomplete. The exterior surface bears 8 lines, and part of a ninth, of script in Greek characters finely incised; the interior bears about 40 to 43 lines of an inscription also in Greek characters which may possibly by Coptic.

Length 10.8 cm
Width 8 cm
Credit Line Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928
Other Number 25-10-340 - Field No SF

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