Locket

Excavated at Tell en-Nasbeh, northwest of Jerusalem, excavation inventory no. x15, excavation museum no. M 1688, 1932 [1];

Acquired as part of the finds from the Tell en-Nasbeh excavation by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] The Nelson-Atkins and the Pacific School of Religion co-sponsored an archaeological expedition at Tell en-Nasbeh, northwest of Jerusalem, in 1932. The expedition was led by Dr. William Frederic Badé. This object is published in the excavation report, C. C. McCown, Tell en-Nasbeh, Vol. I: Archaeological and Historical Results (Berkeley and New Haven: The Palestine Institute of Pacific School of Religion and the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1947), 106, 269 (fig. 73 no. 4), 271. An excavation inventory card ("millimeter card") for this object, held by the Badé Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA, documents its findspot as Tomb 23, West Cemetery, South Burial, on April 26, 1932. Copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial file. With thanks to Dr. Melissa Cradic, Curator, Badé Museum, for sharing this information with the Nelson-Atkins.