Israel/Golan
Late Roman, Byzantine
Dining/Drinking/Serving
The matrix is slightly ferruginous clay containing about 7 percent of silty angular quartz, lesser quantity of pure ferruginous shale and without any traces of mica. According to the optical activity of the clay minerals of the matrix, firing temperature estimated 700ºC. The non-plastics compose about 12% of the sherd’s volume and are badly sorted 0.05-0.7 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 rare round grains of siltstone.
