Context (Display)
Accompanying display labels relating to 1952.427.1-13 reads: 'Group from Tomb E.4.' and 'Oil-lamp'. It is unknown when or how many objects from this accession number range were on display.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

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: Jane Pettitt

Context (Field collection)
Found: Tomb E.4
Excavated by Kathleen Kenyon in 1952

Event Date 1952
Author: maa

Context (References)
Kenyon, K.M. (1960). Excavations at Jericho, Vol. I: The Tombs Excavated in 1952–1954. London: The British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.
Event Date 1960
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1952.427[.1-13]: 'Fragments of jugs and vases from Tomb E4. This was a large tomb much disturbed as the roof had fallen in. This selection comprises pot fragments marked J Tomb E 4: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13; and lamps marked: 16, 17. Large bundles of sherds from this tomb have not been numbered but put in stone'.
Event Date 3/8/1992
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1952.427[.1-13]: 'Three dipper juglets, two complete, one upper portion only; rim neck and part of body of storage jar (number 3). Oil lamp marked 16 has been glued back together (coarse ware). Lamp 17 has part of rim, side and base broken off and missing. Also one jar (numbered13), with two handles, has been reconstructed, with large area of infill. Sherds marked 8 and 11 conjoin to form the pedestal base and part of body of ?bowl. Also found: 4 sherds; 2 marked only 'Tomb E 4', not marked with the accession number or any number following the tomb number; 1 marked 'E4'; 1 not marked at all'.
Event Date 17/10/2001
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Analysis)
Period is probably Intermediate Early Bronze - Middle Bronze, possibly with later Middle Bronze burials, rather than Middle Bronze.
Event Date 17/10/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Jar with a flat base, globular body, two small circular lug handles and an everted rim. This vessel has been reconstructed using sherds and plaster infill.
Event Date 27/7/2022
Author: Jane Pettitt