Afula 004 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: Afula 004

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Vessel Registration Number:

Afula L:181 B:1347 Reg. No: 655

Site Name

Afula

Date

13th - 15th c. CE

Shape

Jar

Country/Region

Israel/Jezreel Valley

Period

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/e...

Functional Category

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Description

The fabric is silty, with ~15% voids. The non-plastic inclusions include 15% sub-angular to rounded pellets/shale (50-450 μm), possibly some grog (200-500 μm), 10% sub-angular to sub-rounded chalk (40-350 μm), 10% sub-angular to rounded quartz (180-300 μm), some rounded foraminifera (30-100 μm).

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Afula L:181 B:1347 Reg. No: 655

Jar

Afula

13th - 15th c. CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk, Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

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Afula L:181 B:1347 Reg. No: 655

Jar

Afula

13th - 15th c. CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk, Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Israel: Galilee /

Israel / Galilee

Inclusions

Shale, chalk, quartz

Geological Formation

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Local Petrographic Group

Local group 1a (Gabrieli et al 2014)

Raw Material

Marl/shale

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Associated Petrofabric

Israel-Palestinian Authority/Lower Cretaceous/argillaceous/shales-mature sandstone-siltstone

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

Medieval-Modern Levantine handmade geometric painted ware (HMGP)

11th c. CE - 20th c. CE

Later Islamic - Fatimid/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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