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| Name of structure: | Unknown |
| Extended name of structure: | |
| Type of structure: | Bath house and bath house tunnel |
| Country or main area: | Israel |
| Region within country or main area: | Jordan Valley |
| City or area within region: | Beit She'an |
| Date of structure: | 507, 535 |
| Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 6 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Loose tesserae |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | n/a |
| Date of mosaic: | Unknown |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 6 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | 6 AD |
| Silver tessera at site: | Unknown |
| Gold tessera at site: | Unknown |
| Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | Unknown |
| Has analysis been done? | Yes |
| Samples taken from where? | From bathhouse (NW corner and apse of exedra) and tunnel in another bathhouse (used for storage of tesserae) (Shugar, 2000). |
| Excavation and restoration campaigns: | 1950s |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Shugar, A. N., 'Byzantine opaque red glass tesserae from Beit She'an, Israel', Archaeometry 42/2 (2000), 375-84. Bar-Nathan, R. & Mazor, G., 'Beit She'an', in Excavations and Surveys in Israel, ed by D. Sussmann & N. Silberstein (Israeli Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, 1993), 33-52. Mazor, G. & Bar-Nathan, R., 'The Beit She'an excavation project 1992-1994' , Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel (HA-ESI), 17 (1998), 7-38. Crowfoot, J. W., Early Churches in Palestine (London, 1941).
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