SY12-07 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: SY12-07

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Vessel Registration Number:

6-13-030-1-K1

Site Name

Aswan, Syene

Date

late 3rd - 2nd century BCE

Shape

Plate

Country/Region

Egypt/Upper Egypt

Period

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Functional Category

Dining/Drinking/Serving

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Description

Ferruginous clay matrix, optically inactive. 26% inclusions, medium porosity. Aplastics are primarily quartz and feldspars (plagioclase), accompanied by minro volcanic rock fragments, brown hornblende, micas, amphiboles, microcline and naturally admixed plant fibres. Micrite and clinopyroxenes occur very rarely. This is a natural, relatively coarse (up to 1.80mm) Nile sediment.

IFAO 5441

Thin Section Photos 1

6-13-030-1-K1

Plate

Aswan

late 3rd - 2nd century BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Break Photos 1

6-13-030-1-K1

Plate

Aswan

late 3rd - 2nd century BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Vessel Images 1

6-13-030-1-K1

Plate

Aswan

late 3rd - 2nd century BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Egypt / Nile valley

Inclusions

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Geological Formation

Ferruginous

Local Petrographic Group

ASW-NILE_01

Raw Material

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Associated Petrofabric

Egypt/Nile Clay

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

Ptolemaic Black Slipped ware

later 4th century BCE - early 1st century CE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic, Roman

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Bibliography

Laura Rembart. "Kulturelle Identitäten Oberägyptens in ptolemäisch-römischer Zeit am Beispiel von Syene. Typochronologie, Akkulturation und wirtschaftsarchäologische Interpretation von ausgewählten Fundkomplexen aus der Stadtgrabung", Dr. Phil., Department for Classical Archaeology, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, 2018
Peloschek, Lisa. "Cultural Transfers in Aswan (Upper Egypt). Petrographic Evidence for Ceramic Production and Exchange from the Ptolemaic to the Late Antique Period.", PhD, Archaeometry, University of Vienna, 2015

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