Mt. Carmel, St. Mary

14th - 15th c. CE

Cooking vessel

Israel/Carmel Mountains

Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Cooking/Food production

Description

The fabric is a reddish, single-spaced, and silty marl. The non-plastic inclusions are: sub-angular to sub-rounded chalk/calcareous concretions (80-450 μm), sub-angular to sub-rounded shale (50-250 μm), sub-angular to sub-rounded quartz (50-280 μm, zoned), sub-angular serpentine/opaque minerals (40-150 μm).

Thin Section Photos  1


Cooking vessel
Mt. Carmel
14th - 15th c. CE
Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Break Photos  0

Vessel Images  2


Cooking vessel
Mt. Carmel
14th - 15th c. CE
Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Cooking vessel
Mt. Carmel
14th - 15th c. CE
Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Petrographic Sample

Western Galilee (?) /

Chalk/calcareous concretions, shale, quartz, serpentine

Local group 1 (Gabrieli et al 2014)

Marl

Associated Petrofabric

Associated Kiln/Workshop

Associated Ware/Ware Family

11th c. CE - 20th c. CE

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