National Treasures

About Findings Periods The Mandatory Collection of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum
 
Object's Name: Fragment Censer With Geometric Pattern
Period: Early Islamic
Material: Soapstone
Site: Ramla, esh-Sheikh Rihan
Height: 4.683 cm
Description: Part of a wall of an incense burner having round walls and rhomboid-shaped side flanks. The walls are decorated with drilled designs ofcircles and dots. Incense burners of this type were found in sevsralsites at Ramla and its surroundings .
Bibliography:
Whitcomb, D. 1988. AQABA "Port of Palestine on the China Sea". The oriental Institute, Chicago.. Chicago, 25, 25.





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