Vessel Registration Number:

AS99.B.024

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Elissa, shipwreck

Grinding bowl/mortarium

Israel-Palestinian Authorit...

Iron Age IIB

Cooking/Food production

Description

Color: Dark Brown/Green. Fabric: -. Pores: Meso Vughs, Meso-Micro Channels (some of the channels may be a result of the depressurization process). Single Spaced Porphyric. Homogeneous.

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Grinding bowl/mortarium
Elissa
Iron Age IIB

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Grinding bowl/mortarium
Elissa
Iron Age IIB

Petrographic Sample

Cyprus/ N. Syria /

Common: Basaltic rock with lathes of Quartz, Feldspar, and some Serpentine, Medium-Fine Sand, Sub-Rounded, Medium-High Sphericity, Few: Quartz (monocrystalline most common but with some rutile intergrowth), Medium-Fine Sand, Sub-Rounded- Angular, Medium Sphericity, Chert, Medium-Fine Sand, Sub-Angular, Medium Sphericity, Very Few: Serpentine, Fine Sand, Rounded, High Sphericity, Feldspar, Fine Sand, Angular, Medium Sphericity, Rare: ARF (Mudstone), Medium Silt, Rounded, High Sphericity, Highly Birefringent Mineral (Olovine/Clinopyroxene), Medium Silt, Angular, Medium Sphericity, Feldspar, Fine Sand, Sub-Rounded, Medium Sphericity, Very Rare: Sparrite, Medium Sand, Angular, Low Sphericity Most, if not all, of this calcite was deposited after these vessels came to rest on the sea floor, Opaques: 1%, Medium-Fine Silt, Rounded, Hihg Spericity, Sharp-Clear Boundaries.

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