Date of Illustration: 14^th^ century BCE

Description: During the Egyptian occupation of Canaan, Beth Shean was an Egyptian military base located to the south of Nazareth in the Jordan Valley. Excavations there have revealed, in the strata of the 18^th^ Dynasty (14^th^ century BCE) a painted pottery sherd which contained a painting of a human figure holding a trumpet.

The upper part of the shard is broken but the image is complete enough to allow the trumpet to be estimated as having a conical tube yard, some 600 mm long and a conical, slightly-flared bell with an end diameter of some 70 mm.

Citations: Mazar 1997, Braun 2001: p.92, Fig. III.13

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