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Macehead

Object Number:32-15-275
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Israel
Beth Shean
Archaeology Area: Level XA, N. of Room 1619
Locus: N. of Room 1619
Period: Middle Bronze IIB
Middle Bronze IIC
Date Made: 1800-1550 BCE
Early Date: -1800
Late Date: -1550
Section:Near Eastern
Materials:Faience
Credit Line:Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1932
Other Number:31-11-19 - Field No SF

Description

Faience with a blue glaze. Egg shaped. Black painted decoration in a leaf pattern in two registers separated by two horizontal bands; the leaves in the upper register are filled with diagonal lines, each of those in the lower register contains a vertical line.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Canaan and Ancient Israel (18 Oct 1998 - 02 Aug 2021) View Objects in Exhibition

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