![Garment Button Decorated in Relief](images/300/) IAA Number: 1997-482
![Back](images/backsearch_icon_eng.gif) | Object's Name: Garment Button Decorated in Relief, Gorgon Period: Early Hellenistic Material: Gold Site: Za`quqa, Kh. Diameter: 14 mm Description: A button with a gorgon relief, likely sewn to burial vestments. Bibliography: Kloner A., Regev D,. and Ruppaport U. 1992. A Hellenistic Burial cave in the Judean Shephelah. ATIQOT XXI: 27-50 (Hebrew), 175-176 (English), Fig. 31. Erlich A 2009. The art of Hellenistic Palestine ( BAR International Series 2010). Oxford, 102, Fig. 107.
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