Dagger
34-20-620
From: Israel | Beth Shean
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 34-20-620 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Israel | Beth Shean |
| Archaeology Area | Level XII, Room 1838, burial |
| Period | Early Bronze III |
| Date Made | 2700-2300 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Copper |
| Description | Copper. With a broad flat rib extending the length of the blade on both sides; tanged (most of tang missing). The tang originally had a rivet, now missing. Belonging to this object is a limestone pommel roughly hemispherical, the interior hollow and the walls pierced horizontally in two places to allow the passafe of a rivet for attachment. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1934 |
| Other Number | 33-11-864 - Field No SF |
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