Petrographic sample: Dan 15.TS

Vessel Registration Number:

Dan 15

Tel Dan

1200 BCE - 1000 BCE

Flask

Israel/Hula Valley

Iron Age I

Transport/Storage

Description

The fabric is clayey, silty (~30% silt), porous, dark brown to red in Plain Polarized Light (PPL) with some iron accumulations and iron ooids (50-100µm). The silt contains mostly well-sorted angular quartz, poorly-sorted angular limestone and eroded flakes of feldspars. The a-plastic components consist of spherical terra rossa bowls (up to 200µm) , which include silty quartz inclusions and in addition poorly-sorted angular limestone (~5% 100-400µm), sub-angular well-sorted quartz and qartzite (~50µm), and large fragments of silicified plants, bones and eroded shells . Some of the samples of this group contain eroded basalt fragments (100-400µm)

Thin Section Photos  1


Flask
Tel Dan
1200 BCE - 1000 BCE
Iron Age I

Break Photos  3


Flask
Tel Dan
1200 BCE - 1000 BCE
Iron Age I

Flask
Tel Dan
1200 BCE - 1000 BCE
Iron Age I

Flask
Tel Dan
1200 BCE - 1000 BCE
Iron Age I

Vessel Images  4


Flask
Tel Dan
1200 BCE - 1000 BCE
Iron Age I

Flask
Tel Dan
1200 BCE - 1000 BCE
Iron Age I

Flask
Tel Dan
1200 BCE - 1000 BCE
Iron Age I

Flask
Tel Dan
1200 BCE - 1000 BCE
Iron Age I

Petrographic Sample

Clayey alluvium with limestone and silicified vegetation

Associated Kiln/Workshop

Associated Ware/Ware Family

1000-800 BCE

Iron Age