This petro fabric represents part of the ceramic production of Northern Syria.
Among these is the local production of Tell Tewini and the region of found in different archaeological periods, shapes, and applied production techniques (Degryse and Vansteenhuyse 2019). Tell Tweini is located in the Jebleh plain at, roughly 1.5 km from the Mediterranean coastline and about 30 km south of Latakia. The Tell is situated outside the limits of modern Jebleh located along the coastline. Uplifted marine Late Pleistocene deposits characterize the coastline. The Jebleh plain is bounded in the east by small hills built of Paleogene chalky marls, limestone, and sandy marls. A small river, the Rumailiah, flows in an east-west direction ...
The fabric is characterized by a homogeneous yellow-brown matrix, evenly distributed pores (around 3% to 5%), from 50 up to 500 μm in size. It contains fossil fragments such as shell, gastropods, bivalves, corals, algae, ostracodes, foraminifers, radiolaria, and calcispheres (between 25 and 50%). Bioclastic content is from 100 μm to up to 2 mm in size. The fabric is dark, red to brown in PPL. Grog was added, in which no mineral content is apparent (about 5 to 10%, between 500 μm and 2 mm in size). Few mineral grains were observed: quartz, feldspar, pyroxene (~ 5% up to 100 μm), and rare sandstone or quartzite fragments (up to 1 mm).
This petro fabric represents part of the ceramic production of Northern Syria.
Among these is the local production of Tell Tewini and the region of found in different archaeological periods, shapes, and applied production techniques (Degryse and Vansteenhuyse 2019). Tell Tweini is located in the Jebleh plain at, roughly 1.5 km from the Mediterranean coastline and about 30 km south of Latakia. The Tell is situated outside the limits of modern Jebleh located along the coastline...
