Accession No

1955.344 C


Description

15 rectangular strips of bone used as inlay to decorate a wooden box. Strips decorated with diagonal grooves; grooves grouped into sets of three and four on two strips. Two strips detached from perspex mount and broken into two refitting pieces.


Place

Asia; West Asia; Palestine; West Bank; Jericho


Period

Middle Bronze Age II


Source

British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem [donor]; Kenyon, Kathleen [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1955.344 C; G73 136 [Excavation Register]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Bone


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Field collection)
Found: Tomb G.73


Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Jericho, excavated by Kathleen Kenyon, 1952-1958. See archive for field notebooks, distribution lists, etc. (BR6/3/1/1 – BR6/3/1/8). 
Event Date 1952
Author: Katrina Dring


Description (Physical description)
Original description: 'Rectilinear strips of bone inlay from a box, decorated with diagonal lines inlaid with dark infill.'
Event Date 1955
Author: maa


Context (References)
Kenyon, K.M. (1965). Excavations at Jericho, Vol. II: The Tombs Excavated in 1955–1958. London: The British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. p. 462-463 (no. 136), fig. 244
Event Date 1965
Author: Imogen Gunn


Description (Physical description)
15 rectangular strips of bone used as inlay to decorate a wooden box. Strips decorated with diagonal grooves; grooves grouped into sets of three and four on two strips. Two strips detached from perspex mount and broken into two refitting pieces.
Event Date 27/7/2022
Author: Katrina Dring


FM:267720

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