1.3.02026-08-30vaseRådata3400031objektStatens museer för världskultur - MedelhavsmuseetSMVK-MMFöremålhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3400031MM 1956:341Vase; pale yellow clay, wheel thrown. Conical foot and quite high somewhat crooked neck with outward turned mouth. Found in MM 1956:349.MM 1956:341, Bought from The Jericho Excavation Fund, Institute of Archaeology, London, from the extensive excavations conducted in 1952-58 by Kathleen Kenyon for the British School of Archaelogy in Jerusalem, Found in MM 1956:349., Parts of the foot and neck reconstructed in plaster. 10 cm. long crack along the shoulder., H. 13 cm., During the Middle Bronze Age (c.1900-1550 BC) houses consisting of small irregularly shaped rooms were built, and the city was fortified by an earthen rampart faced with plaster, surmounted by city walls. A huge retaining wall at the base of the slope existed in the final phase. Mass burials were excavated in a cemetery off the mound in shaft graves. The remains of wooden beds on which the deceased lay as well as pottery vessels containing food and drink have been found next to several of the bodies. The city was destroyed, probably about the end of the Middle Bronze Age (1550 BC)., Tomb HII, Jericho H.11.18., Pale yellow clay, wheel thrown, Palestine, Israel, JerikoInsamladKenyon, KathleenBrukadMiddle Bronze Age (c.1900-1550 BC)FunnenAsien, Palestina (stat), Jerichohttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/html/3400031http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/xml/3400031http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/rdf/3400031