Jericho: MRA-JOR-Jer001
Type Sample Item
Sample ID
- MRA-JOR-Jer001
Sample Material Type
- Plaster
Sample Sub-type
- fragment
Dimensions (cm)
- Length
- 3.2
- Width
- 2.9
- Height
- 1.6
- Notes
- largest fragment
Weight
- weight value (g)
- 10.44
- Notes
- largest fragment
Geographic Location
- Country
- Jordan
- Place
- Jericho
Site/monument
- Jordan (JOR)
Jericho
Teleilat el Ghassul
Historical note about the site/monument
- The site hosted settlements mainly related to the Ghassulian culture during both the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods. Excavations were begun in the 1930s. Besides identifying successive habitation periods, important aspects of Ghassulian Chalcolithic culture were uncovered in the form of mural paintings. The paintings were executed on plaster in the walls of houses dated to the late Chalcolithic period. Due to their poor preservation, the murals remain enigmatic. Depictions of fauna and masked figures, perhaps related to local mythology, can still be discerned in the murals.
Further reading:
Schwartzbaum, P., Silver, C., & Wheatley, C. (1980). The conservation of a chalcolithic mural paintings on mud brick from the site of Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan. In Third international symposium on mudbrick (adobe) preservation. Ankara, 29 september-4 October 1980 (pp. 177-200).
Bourke, S. J. (2007). The late Neolithic/early Chalcolithic transition at Teleilat Ghassul: context, chronology and culture. Paléorient, 15-32.
Chronological period (sample)
- Neolithic-Calcolithic
Date of sampling
- Unknown
- Yes
Other related archival documents
- ICCROM Conservation Report of the Consolidation and Mounting of the mural painting fragments from the site of Teleilat Ghassul [ photo DSC00001 to DSC 00028]. ICCROM Library