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Spouted Jug

Object Number:29-103-127
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Israel
Beth Shean
Archaeology Area: CN IV, 221-A; class D
Locus: CN IV, Tomb 221-A
Period: Early Iron Age
Section:Near Eastern
Materials:Ceramic
Credit Line:Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928
Other Number:26-10-88 - Field No SF

Description

Ring base, globular body, high, narrow, cylindrical neck (12.5 cm high); long filter spout at right angles to the loop handle which connects the upper part of the body with the lower part of the neck; the middle of the handle is in the form of two twisted strands, the strands terminating in two coils on the base of the handle. Brown ware with traces of buff wash on the neck and red wash on the body.

Oren: “Jug. Brown ware, buff slip on neck and reddish on body, burnished.”

Current & Past Exhibitions:

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

Bibliography:

[Book] Oren, Eliezer D. 1973. The Northern Cemetery of Beth Shan.. Leiden. E. J. Brill. pg. xx, 307 p. with illus., 3 fold. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Figure 47b, no. 24; Figure 75, no. 6View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Fitzgerald, Gerald M. Excavations in the Northern Cemetery Area, 1922-1931.. Unpublished manuscript. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Pl.27, No.38View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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