Yaffo 003 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: Yaffo 003

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Vessel Registration Number:

Yaffo B: 79/y/68/292

Site Name

Jaffa

Date

Late 6th - mid 4th c. BCE

Shape

Bowl

Country/Region

Israel/Central Coastal Plain

Period

Achaemenid Persian

Functional Category

Dining/Drinking/Serving

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Description

micaceous? dark-reddish, ss, 5% voids, silty-fine

Thin Section Photos 1

Yaffo B: 79/y/68/292

Bowl

Jaffa

Late 6th - mid 4th c. BCE

Achaemenid Persian

Break Photos 0

Vessel Images 2

Yaffo B: 79/y/68/292

Bowl

Jaffa

Late 6th - mid 4th c. BCE

Achaemenid Persian

Yaffo B: 79/y/68/292

Bowl

Jaffa

Late 6th - mid 4th c. BCE

Achaemenid Persian

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Chios? /

Inclusions

["Mica: 12% musc. 20-100 elong.", " QZ: 10% 20-150 a-sa", " OP: 5% 30-120 sr-r", " Several: CC 30-150 sa-sr, Kurkar? 150-250 r"]

Geological Formation

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Local Petrographic Group

Yaffo FW1(m)

Raw Material

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Associated Petrofabric

Turkey/Eastern Mediterranean/Alluvial soils/Mica

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

Kelenderis Band-Painted ware

7th-4th BCE

Iron Age III, Achaemenid Persian

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Bibliography

Gunnar Lehmann, Yiftah Shalev, Hans Mommsen, David Ben-Shlomo, Małgorzata Daszkiewicz, Gerwulf Schneider, and Ayelet Gilboa. "The Kelenderis pottery workshop(s): newly identified agents in East Mediterranean maritime exchange networks in the Achaemenid period" Levant (2020) , Figure 8.

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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