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Object Number:29-105-378
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Israel
Beth Shean
Archaeology Area: CN II, 90/x26; Class D
Period: Early Iron Age
Section:Near Eastern
Materials:Ivory
Iconography:Female Figure?
Credit Line:Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928
Other Number:1992 - Field No SF

Description

Female? figure. Very fragmentary. The surface has a number of depressions into which pegs holding inlay, etc. fitted. Completely disintegrated 11/94.

Oren: “Gaming-board. Ivory; broken.”

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 45, no. 23; Figure 76, no. 10View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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