Vessel Registration Number:

Qedesh K99P086

Qedesh/Kedesh

Jar

Israel/Galilee

Transport/Storage

Description

This samples is characterized by nearly isotropic light grayish-brown to greenish gray color matrix, milky under the microscope. These affinities originated as a result of high firing temperature, estimated 800-850ºC. The vessels were tempered with 10-20 percent of polymineral sand, which consists mostly of rounded to sub-rounded quartz and limestone grains and angular and rhombic dolomite crystals. Sub-angular chert and fragments of aquatic shells and Amphiroa sp. are rare. The grains are ranging between 0.3 and 0.8 mm. Tempering with dolomitic sand is usually associated with the well-known “Moza clay-dolomitic sand” fabric, which is one of the common components of the ceramic assemblages of Judean-Samarian Ridge and northern Negev through Chalcolithic to Roman periods (Glass et al 1993; Goren 1995; Maier et al 1992; Goldfus and Arubas 2002; Berlin 2005). From the other hand, vessels of this petrographic group differ in many respects from the latter, and since dolomite exposures are common also on Mount Carmel (Bentor 1966:5-7) and on Manara-Ramim Ridge (Sneh and Weinberger 2003 geological map), it may be attributed to this areas rather than to Judea or Samaria. At the same time, presence of Amphiroa sp., which is one of the the fingerprints of the coast, allows to suggest the Mount Carmel coast as the possible place, where these vessels were manufactured.

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Jar
Qedesh/Kedesh

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Petrographic Sample

Associated Petrofabric

Associated Kiln/Workshop

Associated Ware/Ware Family

c. 500 BCE - 1st c. BCE

Achaemenid Persian, Iron Age III/Achaemenid Persian, Hellenistic, Hellenistic, Early Roman, Early Roman