Hawarit S4 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: Hawarit S4

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Vessel Registration Number:

Hawarit surf S4

Site Name

Khirbet el-Hawarit

Date

c. 200 - 600 CE

Shape

Cooking pot

Country/Region

Israel/Golan

Period

Late Roman, Byzantine

Functional Category

Cooking/Food production

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Description

Same as Hawarit S1. Several carbonate inclusions.

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Hawarit surf S4

Cooking pot

Khirbet el-Hawarit

c. 200 - 600 CE

Late Roman, Byzantine

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Israel /

Inclusions

mature quartz sand, ferruginous shale, siltstone

Geological Formation

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Local Petrographic Group

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Raw Material

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Associated Petrofabric

Syria/Israel/Mount Hermon foothills/Lower Cretaceous ferruginous shale and mature quartz

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

Golan Mid-Late Roman Hawarit ware

ca. 300 CE - 600 CE

Roman, Byzantine

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Bibliography

Hartal, Moshe; Hudson, Nicholas; and Berlin, Andrea M. "Khirbet el-Hawarit: A Ceramic Workshop on the Mt. Hermon Slopes" ‘Atiqot 59 (2008), 131-155

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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