Petrographic sample: Ashkelon: A13

Vessel Registration Number:

Ashkelon 50.49 L453 (3)

Ashkelon

Amphora

Israel/Southern Coastal Plain

Iron Age IIC

Transport/Storage

Description

Aegean clay with andesite inclusions Color:brown.Fabric:Crystallitic B-fabric?, (thin).Pores:Meso-Micro Vesicles.close spaced porphyric.Homogeneous.

Thin Section Photos  1


Amphora
Ashkelon
Iron Age IIC

Break Photos  0

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Petrographic Sample

Aegean Region /

Dominant: Andesite, Coarse-Medium Sand, Sub-Angular, Medium Sphericity, Common: Chert (perhaps actually part of andesite fabric), Medium-Fine Silt, Sub-Rounded, Medium Sphericity, Few: Sandstone (matrix bounded), Medium Silt, Sub-Rounded, Medium Sphericity, Monocrystalline Quartz, Fine Silt, Angular, Low Sphericity, Very Opaques: 1% Black (often as a cement for quartz grains), Fine Silt, Sub-Angular, Diffuse Boundaries, ARF: none.

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