Lamp Fragment
29-102-88
From: Israel | Beth Shean
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | 29-102-88 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Israel | Beth Shean |
Archaeology Area | Level II, LTE, W. of House III |
Period | Byzantine |
Date Made | 300-700 CE |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Brown ware, traces of red wash; short nozzle blackened by use; flat base in the center of which is an incised mark resembling a candle flanked on two sides by incised Greek letters, the letters on the left side of the mark are obscured while those on the right look like "WN"; circular body; impressed molded decoration on the body of a band of impressed dots and on the discus of leaves. Fitzgerald: “From the area north of House III comes the lamp, on the bottom of which are the letters ZHX, WN. Lamps like these have been found a Jerusalem in association with late Roman objects and may be assigned to the third century.” |
Credit Line | Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928 |
Other Number | 840 - Field No SF |
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