Author: Elyse Richardson

Categories
Iron Age

Ring

  • Object Title: Ring
  • Object Name: Ring
  • Object Number: 955.165.82
  • Description: Large hoop of fine wire with ends in 4 flat spirals.
  • Dimensions: 2.4 × 1.2 cm
  • Material: Bronze
  • Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
  • Period: Iron Age III Period
  • Date: 6th Century BCE
  • Field Collector: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon; British School of Archaeology; American Schools of Oriental Research
  • Museum Collector: Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham
  • 1953 Archaeological Context: J Tomb WH2
  • Excavation Number: 2
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Categories
Iron Age

Flask

  • Object Title: Flask
  • Object Name: Flask
  • Object Number: 955.165.24
  • Description: Pink clay. Round flat body with short thick neck with inverted rim. Pair of rim-to-shoulder ribbon handles
  • Dimensions: 20 × 15.2 × 9.5 cm
  • Material: Ceramic (earthenware)
  • Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
  • Period: Iron Age III Period
  • Date: 6th Century BCE
  • Field Collector: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon; British School of Archaeology; American Schools of Oriental Research
  • Museum Collector: Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham
  • 1953 Archaeological Context: J Tomb WH2
  • Excavation Number: 12
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  • Published References: Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume Two. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1965.
Categories
Iron Age

Dipper

  • Object Title: Dipper
  • Object Name: Dipper
  • Object Number: 955.165.17
  • Description: Dipper, small. Buff clay. Short ovoid body; short wide neck, rim to shoulder handle. Spout broken off, and parts of rim.
  • Dimensions: 7.7 × 7 × 12 cm
  • Material: Ceramic (earthenware)
  • Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
  • Period: Iron Age II
  • Date: c. 1000-586 BCE
  • Field Collector: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon; British School of Archaeology; American Schools of Oriental Research
  • Museum Collector: Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham
  • 1953 Archaeological Context: J Tomb WH2
  • Excavation Number: 7
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Categories
Iron Age

Saucer

  • Object Title: Saucer
  • Object Name: Saucer
  • Object Number: 955.165.4
  • Description: Pinkish buff clay thickly potted, small flat base, straight sides.
  • Dimensions: 3.1 x 16.1 cm
  • Material: Ceramic (earthenware)
  • Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
  • Period: Iron Age
  • Date: 10th-6th Century BCE
  • Field Collector: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon; British School of Archaeology; American Schools of Oriental Research
  • Museum Collector: Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham
  • 1953 Archaeological Context: J Tomb WH1
  • Excavation Number: 34
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Iron Age

Conical Vessel with Handles

  • Object Title: Conical Vessel with Handles
  • Object Name: Amphora
  • Object Number: 955.165.15
  • Description: Amphora, buff clay with pink slip and black rings on neck, shoulder and body. Flat, stump base on elongated body; sharp shoulder constricted slightly to wide short neck having slightly flaring rim. Pair of rope lug handles on shoulder.
  • Dimensions: 15.4 × 10 × 22 cm
  • Material: Ceramic (earthenware), wheel-thrown
  • Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
  • Period: Iron Age II
  • Date: c. 1200-550 BCE
  • Field Collector: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon; British School of Archaeology; American Schools of Oriental Research
  • Museum Collector: Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham
  • 1953 Archaeological Context: J Tomb WH1
  • Excavation Number: 21
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Categories
Middle Bronze Age II

Loomweight

  • Object Title: Loomweight
  • Object Name: Loomweight
  • Object Number: 955.165.75
  • Description: Dark brown clay roughly potted. Flattened oval having hole through point on one end, other end flattened. Traces of white pigment.
  • Dimensions: 12.5 × 8 × 4.8 cm
  • Material: Ceramic (earthenware)
  • Geography: Excavated at Tell al-Sultan (Jericho), Palestine
  • Period: Middle Bronze Age II
  • Date: 18th-16th Century BCE
  • Field Collector: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon; British School of Archaeology; American Schools of Oriental Research
  • Museum Collector: Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham
  • 1953 Archaeological Context: JPH10.1
  • Excavation Number: 354
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Categories
Middle Bronze Age II

Pestle

  • Object Title: Pestle
  • Object Name: Pestle
  • Object Number: 955.165.77
  • Description: Pestle or hammerstone. Cylinder of course grey stone, flat on one side, with rounded ends.
  • Dimensions: 8 x 7 cm
  • Material: Stone
  • Geography: Excavated at Tell al-Sultan (Jericho), Palestine
  • Period: Middle Bronze Age II
  • Date: 18th-16th Century BCE
  • Field Collector: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon; British School of Archaeology; American Schools of Oriental Research
  • Museum Collector: Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham
  • 1953 Archaeological Context: JPH10.1
  • Excavation Number: 372
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Early Bronze Age IV

Dagger

  • Object Title: Dagger
  • Object Name: Dagger
  • Object Number: 955.165.33
  • Description: Dagger, bronze, medial rib, Remains of four studs at hilt end. Two-edged. Blade only. Point broken.
  • Dimensions: 29.8 × 2.9 × 1.8 cm
  • Material: Bronze
  • Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
  • Period: Early Bronze Age IV
  • Date: c. 2350-2000 BCE
  • Field Collector: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon; British School of Archaeology; American Schools of Oriental Research
  • Museum Collector: Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham
  • 1953 Archaeological Context: J Tomb A113
  • Excavation Number:
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  • Published References: Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume One. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960: p. 193, not drawn.
Categories
Early Bronze Age IV

Weight or Spindle Whorl

  • Object Title: Weight or Spindle Whorl
  • Object Name: Weight or Spindle Whorl
  • Object Number: 955.165.32.B
  • Description: Stone. Round with pierced centre. Weight or Spindle whorl.
  • Dimensions: 1 x 4.1 cm
  • Material: Stone
  • Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
  • Period: Early Bronze Age IV
  • Date: c. 2350-2000 BCE
  • Field Collector: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon; British School of Archaeology; American Schools of Oriental Research
  • Museum Collector: Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham
  • 1953 Archaeological Context: J Tomb H3
  • Excavation Number: 2
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  • Published References: Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume One. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960: p. 247, not drawn.
Categories
Early Bronze Age IV

Oil Lamp

  • Object Title: Oil Lamp
  • Object Name: Lamp
  • Object Number: 955.165.30
  • Description: Lamp. Brownish drap ware with many white grits; 4-spouted; wide round base, Square, with rim pinched in 4 places for spouts. One spout blackened.
  • Dimensions: 4.8 x 12 x 12.5 cm
  • Material: Ceramic (earthenware), wheel-thrown
  • Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
  • Period: Early Bronze Age IV
  • Date: c. 2350-2000 BCE
  • Field Collector: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon; British School of Archaeology; American Schools of Oriental Research
  • Museum Collector: Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham
  • 1953 Archaeological Context: J Tomb H17
  • Excavation Number: 2
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  • Published References: Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume One. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960: pp. 220, 224, 225, Figures 81:17, 83.