Vessel Registration Number:

'Akko HC 130603/1

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'Akko/Acre

1099 CE - 1291 CE

Amphora

Israel/Northern Coastal Plain

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/e...

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Description

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calcareous matrix containing microfossils and silt size minerals derived from igneous and metamorphic rocks including flakes of mica, feldspar, plagioclase, olivine, etc. (Figs. 5.5, 5.6). Non-plastic material for most of the samples of this group constitutes about 5–7% of the volume of the sherds and is represented mostly by biogenic chalk with fine (0.1–0.2 mm) rounded to subrounded particles that was possibly added to the paste in the form of chalk powder. Other sand-size materials—pure brown clay nodules (up to 0.5 mm in diameter), grains of volcanic glass and forsterite (some particles of which are replaced by hetite)—are rare in the thin-sections. Firing temperature is estimated at close to 750ºC and
thin (~0.1 mm) surface vitrifi...

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Amphora
'Akko/Acre
1099 CE - 1291 CE
Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk

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Petrographic Sample

Lebanese Coast /

iogenic chalk, clay nodules volcanic glass and forsterite

calcareous matrix containing microfossils and silt size minerals derived from igneous and metamorphic rocks

Associated Petrofabric

Associated Kiln/Workshop

Associated Ware/Ware Family

12th - 13th centuries CE

Frankish/Ayyubid