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34-20-529

From: Israel | Beth Shean

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 34-20-529
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Israel | Beth Shean
Archaeology Area Level XII ?, W. of Room 1947
Period Early Bronze III
Date Made 2700-2300 BCE
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ceramic
Description

Fragment of the concave base of a bowl. Black ware with a cream coloured exterior surface, red slip over the whole of the interior surface and on the exterior of the base in the following pattern; a small circle from which issue a number of short curved lines, the whole within a larger circle. The slip on both surfaces has lustrous burnishing. Handmade.

Credit Line Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1934
Other Number 33-11-733 - Field No SF

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