Vase

Excavated at Tell en-Nasbeh, northwest of Jerusalem, excavation museum no. M 518, 1927 [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. The partage agreement between the institutions specified that if the artistic quality of the objects found in 1932 was not satisfactory to the Nelson-Atkins, the Pacific School of Religion would transfer objects from its own collection, including objects found during previous excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh such as this one, to the Nelson-Atkins to supplement the more recent finds. 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), 293, plate 48 no. 7 (repro.) and J. C. Wampler, Tell en-Nasbeh, Vol. II: The Pottery (Berkeley and New Haven: The Palestine Institute of Pacific School of Religion and the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1947), 176, plate 67 no. 1530. An excavation inventory card ("millimeter card") for this object, held by the Badé Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA, documents its findspot as Cistern 163, AJ 21, on June 21, 1927. Copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial file. With thanks to Dr. Melissa Cradic, Curator, Badé Museum, for sharing this information with the Nelson-Atkins.