Petrographic sample: Zefat IS 001

Vessel Registration Number:

Zefat L: 252 DB: 554

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Safed

13th - 14th c. CE

Jar

Israel/Galilee

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/e...

Household/Utility

Description

The fabric is a slightly active rendzina, reddish-brown, silty and single spaced. The non-plastic inclusions are: 25% rounded to cellular foraminifera (30-180 μm), 10% chalk, sub-angular to rounded (some ferruginous), 5% angular to sub-rounded quartz (20-220 μm). 3% sub-rounded to rounded shale (50-350 μm); some: sub-angular to sub-rounded calcareous concretions (40-200 μm), sub-rounded to rounded opaque minerals (30-120 μm), sub-angular to sub-rounded limestone (40-140 μm).

Thin Section Photos  2


Jar
Safed
13th - 14th c. CE
Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk, Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Jar
Safed
13th - 14th c. CE
Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk, Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Break Photos  0

Vessel Images  1


Jar
Safed
13th - 14th c. CE
Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk, Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Petrographic Sample

Western Galilee (?) /

Foraminifera, quartz, chalk, shale

Local group 3a (Gabrieli et al 2014)

Rendazina

Associated Ware/Ware Family

11th c. CE - 20th c. CE

Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Ottoman, Ottoman