Petrographic sample: Hisban 008

Vessel Registration Number:

Hisban L: L.1.16 B: P36-2 DB: 840

Tall Hisban

mid 14th c. CE

Closed vessel

Jordan/Central Highlands

Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk

Household/Utility

Description

The fabric is a milky and dark marl, silty and single-double spaced with ~10% voids. The non-plastic inclusions are: 15% angular to sub-rounded quartz (20-320 μm, poorly sorted), 15% sub-rounded to rounded shale/opaque minerals (40-600 μm), 3% sub-angular to sub-rounded chalk/calcareous concretions (40-1000 μm, some ferruginous); some: rounded foraminifera (30-100 μm, ferruginous), sub-angular to sub-rounded limestone (40-400 μm), elongated feldspar (30-70 μm), sub-angular basalt (40-100 μm).

Thin Section Photos  1


Closed vessel
Tall Hisban
mid 14th c. CE
Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk

Break Photos  0

Vessel Images  2


Closed vessel
Tall Hisban
mid 14th c. CE
Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk

Closed vessel
Tall Hisban
mid 14th c. CE
Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk

Petrographic Sample

Western Galilee (?) /

Quartz, shale, chalk/calcareous concretions

Local group 1b/1f(?) (Gabrieli et al 2014)

Marl/shale

Associated Ware/Ware Family

11th c. CE - 20th c. CE

Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Ottoman, Ottoman