Door Handle
Knocker
29-108-105
Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery
From: Israel | Beth Shean
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 29-108-105 |
| Current Location | Rome Gallery - On Display |
| Provenience | Israel | Beth Shean |
| Archaeology Area | Level III or IV, Summit, Room 147 |
| Period | Iron Age IIB | Hellenistic | Roman |
| Date Made | 925 BCE-400 CE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Bronze |
| Iconography | Lion |
| Description | In the form of a hollow lion's head holding a ring in his mouth. Around the head at regularly spaced intervals are nine projections, each terminating in a knob. The object is pierced in four places for attachment; in each of the piercings there remains a fragment of an iron nail. Fitzgerald: “From the southern part of the Western Slope comes the fine door handle, or knocker, in the form of a lion’s head, and which was found in Room 147. It does not, however, follow that its original situation was in this quarter of the Tell; the contents of the Round Church and other Byzantine buildings, which fell into ruins after the Arab occupation were doubtless carried away and scattered in all directions.” |
| Height | 13.5 cm |
| Width | 11.6 cm |
| Depth | 5 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928 |
| Other Number | 3303 - Field No SF |
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