Vessel Registration Number:

AS99.B.040

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Elissa, shipwreck

Amphora

Israel-Palestinian Authorit...

Iron Age IIB

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Description

Color: Light Brown. Fabric: Random Striated or Crystallitic b-fabric (thin). Pores: Mega-Meso Vughs. Sinlge Spaced Porphyric. Homogeneous.

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Amphora
Elissa
Iron Age IIB

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Petrographic Sample

Coastal Lebanon /

Frequent: Biomicrite (forams, algae, shell, some micritic cement), Very Coarse-Fine Sand, Sub-Rounded, High-Low Sphericity, Common: Monocrystalline Quartz, Fine Sand, Angular, Low Sphericity, Very Few: Chert, Fine Sand, Sub-Angular, Low Sphericity, Very Rare: Highly Birefringent Mineral (Olovine/Clinopyroxene), Medium- Fine Sand, Angular, Medium Sphericity, Opaques: 4%, Brown-Red, Medium-Fine Silt, Rounded, Medium Sphericity, Clear-Merging Boundaries.

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