Handle (uncertain)

Ring

31-50-267

From: Israel | Beth Shean

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 31-50-267
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Israel | Beth Shean
Archaeology Area CN 258; Class F
Locus C.N. 258
Section Near Eastern
Materials Bronze
Description

Bronze ring with an iron loop coming to a nail point which pierces a bronze boss over which the ring fits; traces of wood on the nail; the boss is circular with wide flat edges. Probably used as a handle on the side of a coffin. Fragmentary and incomplete.

Credit Line Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1931
Other Number 30-9-194a - Field No SF

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