National Treasures

About Findings Periods The Mandatory Collection of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum
 
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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Garment Button Decorated in Relief  
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