Sherds
34-20-522
From: Israel | Beth Shean
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | 34-20-522 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Israel | Beth Shean |
Archaeology Area | Level XII, Room 1940 |
Period | Early Bronze III |
Date Made | 2700-2300 BCE |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Fragments of a bowl with a concave base, sides curving to a flat, inturned rim. One of the fragments has a long bar handle with two horizontal piercings just below the rim. Grey ware burning brown, red slip on the interior having lustrous burnishing. The exterior is decorated in red slip which bears lustrous burnishing; at the rim is a band encircling the vessel, below which is a series of triangles; below these is a second series of triangles with two chevrons in each of the spaces between them. Almost all of the base is missing but it appears to have a linear design in burnished red slip. Handmade. |
Height | 8.1 cm |
Outside Diameter | 37.2 cm |
Credit Line | Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1934 |
Other Number | 33-11-909a - Field No SF |
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