Mt. Carmel, St. Mary

14th - 15th c. CE

Cooking pot

Israel/Carmel Mountains

Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Cooking/Food production

The fabric is a silty and optically active rendzina, single-spaced with ~10% voids. The non-plastic inclusions are: 30% angular calcite (80-1000 μm), 5% sub-angular to sub-rounded serpentine/opaque minerals (50-200 μm); some: rhomboid dolomite (30-80 μm), sub-angular to sub-rounded quartz (30-200 μm).