Context (Display)
1924.815 A-Z, with the exception of K.2 and R, were historically mounted on a display board labelled: 'Ain Shems, Palestine / Tomb V [Palestine Exploration Fund Annual II p.77] / Early Iron Age / Purchased by Curator from Dept. of Antiquities, Jerusalem. 1924'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
Tomb V. Excavated by Duncan Mackenzie, Palestine Exploration Fund, 1910-1912; the field season when this object was excavated is currently unknown. 

Event Date 1910
Author: maa

Context (References)
Mackenzie, Duncan. (1913). ‘The Tombs of Beth-Shemesh’. Palestine Exploration Fund Annual, vol. 2. pp. 40-92. Plate: XLIII.15
Event Date 1913
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for 1924.815 A-Z: 'Group of small objects from Tomb V:
A: (M.683) Iron arrowhead.
B: Bronze figurine (J.120).
C-G: Faience figurines, Egyptian types (J.121-125).
H and I: Stone beads (J.126 and 127).
J: Part of bronze fibula (J.128).
K: Bronze ring and blue glass bead (J.129).
L and P: Small bronze bangles (J.131 and 135).
M and Q: two small strings of beads(J.132 and 136)
N and O: Blue faience eye amulets (J.133 and 134)
R: Small blue glazed dish (J.137).
S and T: Bronze pins (J.138 and 139).
U: Small bead (J.130).
V, W, X, Y and Z : Small bronze ornaments chiefly broken'
Event Date 1924
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Purchased from the Department of Antiquities, Jerusalem in 1924, see typescript list and correspondence (Doc.539). 
Event Date 1924
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
String of 25 beads of glass, stone and faience. Two tubular faience beads, one tubular bead of red stone with copper alloy coating, one irregularly shaped bead of red stone, two disk beads of faience, one orange spherical bead possibly of carnelian, and one biconical bead of black glass or stone; other beads are all spherical and of glass or faience, some with ribs or grooves.
Event Date 15/9/2023
Author: Katrina Dring