Yodefat

1 century CE

Casserole/Lopas

Israel/Galilee

Early Roman

Cooking/Food production

Matrix is ferruginous silty clay, where the silt of aeolian origin composes up to 12% of the sherds’ volume. It comprises mainly quartz, lesser quantities of plagioclase, and tiny dots of iron oxides. It is one sand-size inclusion only – 1.0 mm round ferruginous oolith.

Israel/Western Galilee/Lower Cretaceous/ferruginous ooliths and silty ferruginous matrix