Ashkelon pers 005 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: Ashkelon pers 005

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Vessel Registration Number:

Ashkelon L: 190 B: 20/RP201

Site Name

Ashkelon

Date

5th - 4th c. BCE

Shape

Bowl

Country/Region

Israel-Palestinian Authorit...

Period

Achaemenid Persian

Functional Category

Dining/Drinking/Serving

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Description

Ophiolitic reddish, dark, ss-ds, 10% voids, fine

Thin Section Photos 1

Ashkelon L: 190 B: 20/RP201

Bowl

Ashkelon

5th - 4th c. BCE

Achaemenid Persian

Break Photos 0

Vessel Images 2

Ashkelon L: 190 B: 20/RP201

Bowl

Ashkelon

5th - 4th c. BCE

Achaemenid Persian

Ashkelon L: 190 B: 20/RP201

Bowl

Ashkelon

5th - 4th c. BCE

Achaemenid Persian

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Unknown /

Inclusions

QZ: 5% 30-300 a-sr, some cracked zoned, OP: 5% 30-100 sa-r, Several: serpentine 60-300 sr-r, poly-crs-qz 50-200 sa-a, mica 30-80 elong, chert 40-200 sa-a

Geological Formation

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Local Petrographic Group

Ashkelon FW1

Raw Material

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Associated Petrofabric

Turkey/Eastern Mediterranean/Alluvial soils/Mica

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

Kelenderis Band-Painted ware

7th-4th BCE

Iron Age III, Achaemenid Persian

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Bibliography

Gunnar Lehmann, Yiftah Shalev, Hans Mommsen, David Ben-Shlomo, Małgorzata Daszkiewicz, Gerwulf Schneider, and Ayelet Gilboa. "The Kelenderis pottery workshop(s): newly identified agents in East Mediterranean maritime exchange networks in the Achaemenid period" Levant (2020) , Figure 7.

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