Vessel Registration Number:

Qedesh K00P051

Qedesh/Kedesh

1st half 2nd c. BCE

Perfume bottle/Unguentarium

Israel/Galilee

Middle Hellenistic

Cosmetic/Toilette/Medicine

Description

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Vessel tempered with 10-20 percent 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 including 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). On one hand hand, vessels of this petrographic group differ in many respects from the latter, and sin...

Thin Section Photos  1


Perfume bottle/Unguentarium
Qedesh/Kedesh
1st half 2nd c. BCE
Middle Hellenistic

Break Photos  0

Vessel Images  1


Perfume bottle/Unguentarium
Qedesh/Kedesh
1st half 2nd c. BCE
Middle Hellenistic

Petrographic Sample

Associated Ware/Ware Family

3rd -2nd centuries BCE

Achaemenid Persian, Hellenistic