Petrographic sample: A72/92 50.58.L262.B83 (9) TS

Ashkelon

7th century BCE

Cooking pot

Israel-Palestinian Authorit...

Iron Age II

Cooking/Food production

Description

“Cooking-pot fabric” may be a subset of the brown or red alluvial soils that characterize much of the local pottery at Ashkelon, although Goren sees it as a subset of the ḥamra group (Mazar and Panitz-Cohen 2001:20, Fabric Group 15). In any case, it is widely agreed that this is a specialized fabric made exclusively for use in cooking pots. The cooking-pot fabric is orange in color, has coastal inclusions (beach sand and accessory minerals), and is characterized by many parallel cracks surrounding the inclusions.

Thin Section Photos  1


Cooking pot
Ashkelon
7th century BCE
Iron Age II

Break Photos  0

Vessel Images  3


Cooking pot
Ashkelon
7th century BCE
Iron Age II

Cooking pot
Ashkelon
7th century BCE
Iron Age II

Cooking pot
Ashkelon
7th century BCE
Iron Age II

Petrographic Sample

Associated Kiln/Workshop

Associated Ware/Ware Family

8th - 6th centuries BCE

Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC