Sherds

34-20-522

From: Israel | Beth Shean

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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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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