Tablet
29-108-602.1
Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery
From: Israel | Beth Shean
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 29-108-602.1 |
| Current Location | Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display |
| Provenience | Israel | Beth Shean |
| Archaeology Area | Level II, Room 1055, Byzantine reservoir |
| Period | Byzantine |
| Date Made | 300-700 CE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Lead |
| Description | In 2 fragments. Thin sheet, rolled when found and originally rectangular. Possibly an imprecation tablet. Incomplete. The exterior surface bears 8 lines, and part of a ninth, of script in Greek characters finely incised; the interior bears about 40 to 43 lines of an inscription also in Greek characters which may possibly by Coptic. |
| Length | 10.8 cm |
| Width | 8 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928 |
| Other Number | 25-10-340 - Field No SF |
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