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Object Number:32-15-113
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Israel
Beth Shean
Archaeology Area: Level I or II, Room 1566
Locus: Room 1566
Period: Byzantine
Early Arabic
Date Made: 300-1100 CE
Early Date: 300
Late Date: 1100
Section:Near Eastern
Materials:Ceramic
Credit Line:Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1932
Other Number:31-9-89 - Field No SF

Description

Brown ware, yellowish slip; flattened base; channel nozzle broken at the end; carinated ovoid-shaped body; high knob handle; molded decoration on the nozzle has circles arranged in the shape of an X under a cross, and along the sides as follows from handle to nozzle in 4 medallions: a scrolling line figure, a rosette, a mound of circles with four circles above it, and a stylized bunch of grapes.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Byzantine Studies Conference Mini-Exhibition (08 Oct 2010 - 10 Oct 2010) View Objects in Exhibition

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