Mold
29-107-969
Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery
From: Israel | Beth Shean
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 29-107-969 |
| Current Location | Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display |
| Provenience | Israel | Beth Shean |
| Archaeology Area | Level III or IV, Summit, room 248 |
| Period | Iron Age IIB | Hellenistic | Roman |
| Date Made | 400–600 CE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Limestone |
| Description | disc shaped, decorated with series of triangles Fitzgerald: “Among the small objects from the Summit one is certainly connected with the Church. A limestone fragment, which was found below the southern wall of the late Arab buildings (Area 248), is part of a mould used in baking the bread for the Liturgy according to the Syrian rit. There appear to be traces of an inscription running round it’s edge.” |
| Length | 10.7 cm |
| Width | 9.7 cm |
| Thickness | 3.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928 |
| Other Number | 3545 - Field No SF |
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