GH (B) 001 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: GH (B) 001

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Vessel Registration Number:

Gush Halav (4135) L:106 B:106/101 DB:776

Site Name

Tel Gush Halav

Date

12th - 13th c. CE

Shape

Cooking pot

Country/Region

Israel/Galilee

Period

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/e...

Functional Category

Cooking/Food production

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Description

The fabric is a slightly optically active rendzina, silty and single-spaced with 20% voids. The non-plastic inclusions are: 25% sub-rounded to rounded foraminifera/calcareous concretions (30-150 μm), 10% sub-angular to angular quartz (20-120 μm); some: sub-rounded opaque minerals (30-120 μm), rounded clay balls (40-100 μm).

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Gush Halav (4135) L:106 B:106/101 DB:776

Cooking pot

Tel Gush Halav

12th - 13th c. CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk

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Vessel Images 0

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Northern Israel /

Inclusions

Foraminifera/calcareous concretions, quartz

Geological Formation

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Local Petrographic Group

Local group 3a (Gabrieli et al 2014)

Raw Material

Rendzina/grumusol

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Associated Petrofabric

Israel-Palestinian Authority/Calcareous/foraminiferous rendzina soil on Upper Cretaceous formations

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

Medieval-Modern Levantine Handmade Cooking ware

11th c. CE - 20th c. CE

Frankish/Ayyubid, Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Ottoman, Ottoman

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Bibliography

Gabrieli R.S., Ben-Shlomo D. and Walker B.J. 2014. "Production and Distribution of Geometric-Painted (HMGP) and Plain Hand-Made Wares of the Mamluk Period: A Case Study from Northern Israel, Jerusalem and Hisban" Journal of Islamic Archaeology 1 (2015), 193-229

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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