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‘Atiqot 79 (2014)
ISBN 2948-040X
Glass Finds and Assorted Beads from Three Tombs at Kursi-Gergesa
(pp. 199–208)
Natalya Katsnelson
Keywords: eulogia, Christian pilgrimage, mask molds, secondary blowing, Christian symbolism, Golgotha, St. John the Baptist, saint, art, iconography, millefiori beads, eye beads
Three glass vessels and 45 pieces of jewelry were retrieved from the tombs discovered behind the apse wall of the church at Kursi. Among the vessels is a mold-blown, hexagonal jug with a rare symbolic motif, hitherto unknown from an excavated context. The finds also included two glass pendants, a ribbed bracelet and many beads of varied shapes and sizes, made of glass, carnelian, resin, bone and coral. Two of the beads were decorated: a mosaic-glass bead and a carnelian bead with a drawn pattern. The entire assemblage is typical of the sixth–early seventh centuries CE.