Category: Early Bronze Age I

• Object Title: Beads
• Object Name: Beads
• Object Number: 955.165.60
• Description: Beads of Carnelian, Shell, Stone, and various other materials. Some found in string position.
• Dimensions: 56 cm
• Material: Carnelian, shell and stone
• Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
• Period: Early Bronze Age I
• Date: c. 3200-2900 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 A94
• Excavation Number:
• Cross References:
  • Kenyon, Kathleen Mary. Digging up Jericho. London: Ernest Benn, 1957: Description of tomb: pp. 96-99; Objects in situ: Plate 34A.
  • Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume One. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960: pp. 16-40 (Tomb A94).
• Published References:
  • Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume One. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960: p. 40.

• Object Title: Spouted Jar
• Object Name: Jar
• Object Number: 955.165.57
• Description: Spouted Jar. Fragmentary. Dark gray ware, burnished.
• Dimensions: 17.1 x 17.8 cm
• Material: Ceramic (earthenware)
• Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
• Period: Early Bronze Age I
• Date: c. 3200-2900 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 A94
• Excavation Number: 246
• Cross References:
  • Kenyon, Kathleen Mary. Digging up Jericho. London: Ernest Benn, 1957: Description of tomb: pp. 96-99; Objects in situ: Plate 34A.
  • Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume One. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960: pp. 16-40 (Tomb A94).
• Published References:
  • Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume One. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960: Figures 3, 14, not drawn.
  • Tushingham, A. D. “Recent Palestinian Accessions.” Royal Ontario Museum Bulletin of the Division of Art & Archaeology 26 (Dec. 1957) Plates 9a. [image]

• Object Title: Juglet
• Object Name: Juglet
• Object Number: 955.165.51
• Description: Yellowish-orange ware. Decoration in thick uneven vertical bands, which have fired red to black. A strip of clay over the top of the handle suggests derivation from a thong attachment of a possible leather prototype.
• Dimensions: 7.9 × 8.4 × 6.5 cm
• Material: Ceramic (earthenware)
• Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
• Period: Early Bronze Age I
• Date: c. 3200-2900 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 A94
• Excavation Number: 76
• Cross References:
  • Kenyon, Kathleen Mary. Digging up Jericho. London: Ernest Benn, 1957: Description of tomb: pp. 96-99; Objects in situ: Plate 34A.
  • Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume One. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960: pp. 16-40 (Tomb A94).
• Published References:
  • Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume One. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960: pp. 33-34, Figure 12:7
  • Tushingham, A. D. “Recent Palestinian Accessions.” Royal Ontario Museum Bulletin of the Division of Art & Archaeology 26 (Dec. 1957) Plates 9a.

• Object Title: Bowl
• Object Name: Bowl
• Object Number: 955.165.50
• Description: Drab ware, firing pinkish inside and in one patch outside. Single handle of applied strip, curved to leave two holes. Decoration in interior of bowl in reddish-brown.
• Dimensions: 5.5 x 15.7 cm
• Material: Ceramic (earthenware)
• Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
• Period: Early Bronze Age I
• Date: c. 3200-2900 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 A94
• Excavation Number: 41
• Cross References:
  • Kenyon, Kathleen Mary. Digging up Jericho. London: Ernest Benn, 1957: Description of tomb: pp. 96-99; Objects in situ: Plate 34A.
  • Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume One. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960: pp. 16-40 (Tomb A94).
• Published References:
  • Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume One. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960: pp. 20, 31-32, Figures 5:Layer 3, 11:15
  • Tushingham, A. D. “Recent Palestinian Accessions.” Royal Ontario Museum Bulletin of the Division of Art & Archaeology 26 (Dec. 1957) Plates 9a.

• Object Title: Juglet
• Object Name: Juglet
• Object Number: 955.165.46
• Description: Pink ware with many coarse, white grits, with traces of red paint, handle is modern restoration; Traces of blackening on rim and body opposite handle. Hand-made. Unpublished.
• Dimensions: 13 × 11.1 × 8.5 cm
• Material: Ceramic (earthenware)
• Geography: Excavated at Jericho, Palestine
• Period: Early Bronze Age I
• Date: c. 3200-2900 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 A94
• Excavation Number: 8
• Cross References:
  • Tushingham, A. Douglas. "Excavations at Old Testament Jericho." The Biblical Archaeologist 16, no. 3 (1953) 46-67: Fig. 4.
  • Kenyon, Kathleen Mary. Digging up Jericho. London: Ernest Benn, 1957: Description of tomb: pp. 96-99; Objects in situ: Plate 34A.
  • Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume One. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960: pp. 16-40 (Tomb A94).
• Published References: