The Roman kiln from Bat el Jebel | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Kiln/Workshop: The Roman kiln from Bat el Jebel

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Name, Location, Date, Shapes Made

Name:

The Roman kiln from Bat el Jebel

Date BCE/CE:

300-330 CE

Period:

Late Roman

Site:

Bat el Jebel

Country/Region:

Israel/Northern Coastal Plain

Shapes Made:

Amphora

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General Information

This kiln produced mainly LRA/A-P (Agora M334/RB.AM.2) and pottery stands.

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Related Images (e.g., group shots, clay deposits, kiln images, etc.)

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Vessels 1

Bat el Jebel A7702 121/1109

Amphora

Bat el Jebel

300-330 CE

Late Roman

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 0

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Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Late Roman Amphora/'Akko-Ptolemais (LRA/A-P)

Date BCE/CE:

4th-7th c. CE

Period:

Byzantine

Associated Petro-fabrics

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Israel/Northern Coastal Plain ferruginous/quartz sand

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Bibliography

Dina Avshalom-Gorni. "The Pottery Workshops from Strata 9–6" in Horbat 'Uza: The 1991 Excavations II: the Late Periods , ed(s). Nimrod Getzov, Dina Avshalom-Gorni, Yael Gorin-Rosen, Edna J. Stern, Danny Syon and Ayelet Tatcher. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 42. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2009, 232
Frankel, Rafi; Getzov, Nimrod. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Akhziv (1), Map of Hanita (2). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1997 , Page(s) 70,71.

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

This kiln is one of four in the area of Akko/Ptolemais that produced LRA/A-P (The others are; Uza, Achziv and Horbat Masref). They all used the same clay recipe, using clay from the area between Achziv to Liman.