This petro-fabric comprises Nile clay with addition of plant remains that can vary is size and quantity. Based on the petrographic analyses to date, such fabrics are common in the Predynastic and Early Dynastic and in modern times. More analysis is required to clarify its use in the intervening periods. Common for beer jars, bread moulds, and cooking pots. Can be relatively easy to identify when the plant fragments are coarse in size and frequent in the paste. Also see information for Egyptian Nile Clay Petro-fabric. (see also ASW-Nile_04 in Peloschek 2015)
See description for Egyptian Nile Clay Petro-fabric.
Amount of plant inclusions can vary widely between a few incidental fragments (accidental inclusions) to very common and clearly representing temper.
Identified by long narrow voids that taper at the end. Can have charred material in the middle or remaining silica structures.
Potential size classifications for length of plant remains:
Small = <1mm
Medium = 1mm – 2mm
Large = >2mm
This petro-fabric comprises Nile clay with addition of plant remains that can vary is size and quantity. Based on the petrographic analyses to date, such fabrics are common in the Predynastic and Early Dynastic and in modern times. More analysis is required to clarify its use in the intervening periods. Common for beer jars, bread moulds, and cooking pots. Can be relatively easy to identify when the plant fragments are coarse in size and frequent in the paste. Also see information for Egyp...
4th-8th century CE
Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Tulunid
3rd mill. BCE - early 1st centuries BCE
Old Kingdom, First Intermediate Period, Second Intermediate Period, Third Intermediate Period/Saite, Late Period, Hellenistic/Ptolemaic
c.100 CE to c.700 CE
Late Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Tulunid
Abu Rahal, Abu Rahal Hill (Egypt/Eastern desert/Red Sea Coast)
Aswan, Elephantine (Egypt/Upper Egypt)
Aswan, Syene (Egypt/Upper Egypt)
This description was compiled during the LCP Egyptian Ceramic Petrography workshop at IFAO in September 2017.
