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Basin (Vessel)

Object Number:29-107-388
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Israel
Beth Shean
Archaeology Area: LTE, House I, sub, Level II (?)
Period: Byzantine
Date Made: 300-700 CE
Early Date: 300
Late Date: 700
Section:Near Eastern
Materials:Marble (Stone)
Iconography:Woman
Animal
Credit Line:Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928
Other Number:100 - Field No SF

Description

Rim fragment of large shallow basin with relief decoration of crouching woman and animal.

Fitzgerald: "part of the rim of a marble basin with a woman and recumbent hourse (or sea-horse) in relief, from House I on the Terrace"

Bibliography:

[Book] Fitzgerald, Gerald M. 1931. Beth-Shan Excavations 1921-1923: the Arab and Byzantine Levels.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Plate XXIX, no. 1 (1); Pages 8 and 44View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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