K. Kana 006 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: K. Kana 006

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Vessel Registration Number:

Kfar Kanna (5083) L:113 B:1033 DB:485

Site Name

Kfar Kanna, Jebel Khuweikha

Date

14th - 15th c. CE

Shape

Cooking pot

Country/Region

Israel/Galilee

Period

Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Functional Category

Cooking/Food production

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Description

The fabric is dark and alluvial with ~25% voids. The non-plastic inclusions are: 25% angular to rhomboid calcite (60-650 μm), 5% angular quartz (30-120 μm); some: sub-angular to sub-rounded calcareous concretions/chalk (80-450 μm), rounded clay pellets (50-180 μm), sub-angular to sub-rounded basalt (50-160 μm), elongated feldspar (30-50 μm).

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Kfar Kanna (5083) L:113 B:1033 DB:485

Cooking pot

Kfar Kanna

14th - 15th c. CE

Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Break Photos 0

Vessel Images 0

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Western Galilee (?) /

Inclusions

Calcite, quartz

Geological Formation

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Local Petrographic Group

Local group 4d (Gabrieli et al 2014)

Raw Material

Alluvial

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Associated Petrofabric

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

Medieval-Modern Levantine Handmade Cooking ware

11th c. CE - 20th c. CE

Frankish/Ayyubid, Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Ottoman, Ottoman

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Bibliography

Gabrieli R.S., Ben-Shlomo D. and Walker B.J. 2014. "Production and Distribution of Geometric-Painted (HMGP) and Plain Hand-Made Wares of the Mamluk Period: A Case Study from Northern Israel, Jerusalem and Hisban" Journal of Islamic Archaeology 1 (2015), 193-229

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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