Lamp Fragment

29-102-88

From: Israel | Beth Shean

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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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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