Mold

29-107-969

Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery

From: Israel | Beth Shean

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 29-107-969
Current Location Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display
Provenience Israel | Beth Shean
Archaeology Area Level III or IV, Summit, room 248
Period Iron Age IIB | Hellenistic | Roman
Date Made 925 BCE-400 CE
Section Near Eastern
Materials Limestone
Description

disc shaped, decorated with series of triangles

Fitzgerald: “Among the small objects from the Summit one is certainly connected with the Church. A limestone fragment, which was found below the southern wall of the late Arab buildings (Area 248), is part of a mould used in baking the bread for the Liturgy according to the Syrian rit. There appear to be traces of an inscription running round it’s edge.”

Length 10.7 cm
Width 9.7 cm
Thickness 3.7 cm
Credit Line Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928
Other Number 3545 - Field No SF

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