Israel/Golan
Late Roman, Byzantine
Cooking/Food production
The matrix is slightly ferruginous clay containing about 7 percent of silty angular quartz, lesser quantity of pure ferruginous shale and rare and rather tiny laths of light mica (muscovite).
According to the optical passivity of the clay minerals of the matrix, firing temperature estimated above 800ºC.
The non-plastics compose about 3% of the sherd’s volume and are 0.1-0.3 mm angular to sub-rounded grains of mature quartz (some with coating of iron oxides), same size elongated angular to elliptic fragments of pure ferruginous shale, and several round grains of siltstone. one silt size olivine grain in this thin-section.
Israel / Golan
mature quartz sand, ferruginous shale, siltstone
silty clay
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Lower Cretaceous
