Hakotel 010 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: Hakotel 010

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Vessel Registration Number:

Jerusalem Western Wall Plaza L: 388 B: 4173 DB: 461

Site Name

Jerusalem, HaKotel

Date

14th - 16th c. CE

Shape

Cooking pot

Country/Region

Israel-Palestinian Authorit...

Period

Late Mamluk-Early Ottoman

Functional Category

Cooking/Food production

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Description

The fabric is a reddish and slightly optically active marl, silty with ~10% voids. The non-plastic inclusions are: 40% sub-angular to angular calcite (30-1300 μm); some: sub-rounded to rounded shale (40-200 μm), sub-rounded to sub-angular calcareous concretions (30-260 μm), sub-rounded to rounded opaque minerals (20-80 μm).

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Jerusalem Western Wall Plaza L: 388 B: 4173 DB: 461

Cooking pot

Jerusalem

14th - 16th c. CE

Late Mamluk-Early Ottoman

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Vessel Images 1

Jerusalem Western Wall Plaza L: 388 B: 4173 DB: 461

Cooking pot

Jerusalem

14th - 16th c. CE

Late Mamluk-Early Ottoman

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Northern Israel /

Inclusions

Calcite

Geological Formation

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Local Petrographic Group

Local group 3d? (Gabrieli et al 2014)

Raw Material

Marl

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Associated Petrofabric

Israel-Palestinian Authority/Calcareous/foraminiferous rendzina soil on Upper Cretaceous formations

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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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