Keisan_3.8 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: Keisan_3.8

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Vessel Registration Number:

K.76.765 6067

Site Name

Tell Keisan

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Shape

Flask

Country/Region

Israel/Northern Coastal Plain

Period

Iron Age I

Functional Category

Transport/Storage

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Description

Soil derived from Neogene marl with silt and inclusions of quartz and marine biogenic debris

Thin Section Photos 6

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K.76.765 6067

Flask

Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

K.76.765 6067

Flask

Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

K.76.765 6067

Flask

Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

K.76.765 6067

Flask

Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

Break Photos 2

K.76.765 6067

Flask

Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

K.76.765 6067

Flask

Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

Vessel Images 2

K.76.765 6067

Flask

Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

K.76.765 6067

Flask

Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Southern Lebanese Coast /

Inclusions

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Geological Formation

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Local Petrographic Group

Keisan B1 or B2

Raw Material

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Associated Petrofabric

Lebanon/Southern Coast/Neogene Marl/Quartz Inclusions and Marine Biogenic Debris

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

Southern Levantine Bronze-Iron Age Plain Wares

3200-c. 550 BCE

Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age

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Bibliography

Waiman-Barak, Paula; Gilboa, Ayelet. "Maritime Transport Containers: The View from Phoenician Tell Keisan (Israel) in the Early Iron Age" in Maritime Transport Containers in the Bronze–Iron Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature , ed(s). Demesticha, S and Knapp, B.A. Hesperia Uppsala: Åströms förlag, 2016, 169-193

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