HST 2_6 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: HST 2_6

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Vessel Registration Number:

HST L87-26

Site Name

Hala Sultan Tekke, Dromola...

Date

c.1450 to c.1200 BCE

Shape

Bowl, deep

Country/Region

Cyprus/Eastern coast

Period

Late Cypriot II

Functional Category

Dining/Drinking/Serving

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Description

The fabric is yellowish/green (PPL), silty, with some iron oxides and. The silt (~10%) is composed mainly of calcareous fragments, mica and minerals derived from igneous rocks. Due to high firing temperatures, foraminifera in the matrix is rarely preserved. The inclusions are well sorted and composed of mainly sub rounded feldspathoids (~15% up to 100μm), some carbonates, basalts and basaltic minerals.

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HST L87-26

Bowl, deep

Hala Sultan Tekke

c.1450 to c.1200 BCE

Late Cypriot II

HST L87-26

Bowl, deep

Hala Sultan Tekke

c.1450 to c.1200 BCE

Late Cypriot II

HST L87-26

Bowl, deep

Hala Sultan Tekke

c.1450 to c.1200 BCE

Late Cypriot II

HST L87-26

Bowl, deep

Hala Sultan Tekke

c.1450 to c.1200 BCE

Late Cypriot II

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HST L87-26

Bowl, deep

Hala Sultan Tekke

c.1450 to c.1200 BCE

Late Cypriot II

HST L87-26

Bowl, deep

Hala Sultan Tekke

c.1450 to c.1200 BCE

Late Cypriot II

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Cyprus / East coast

Inclusions

basaltic minerals, mica, iron oxides and calcareous inclusions

Geological Formation

Alluvial sediment

Local Petrographic Group

local to Larnaca Bay

Raw Material

silty ferruginous fabric

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Associated Petrofabric

Cyprus/Eastern South Coast/calcareous silty fabric with basaltic minerals

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

Late Cypriot White Painted Wheel-Made ware

1500-1050 BCE

Late Cypriot

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Bibliography

Peter M. Fischer and Teresa Bürge. Two Late Cypriot City Quarters at Hala Sultan Tekke The Söderberg Expedition 2010—2017. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 147. Jonsered : Aström, 2018., 2018
Peter M. Fischer and Teresa Bürge. "Tombs and Offering Pits at the Late Bronze Age Metropolis of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus" Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 377:161 (2017)
Fischer, P. M.. The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2010: Excavations at Dromolaxia Vizatzia/Hala Sultan Tekke: Preliminary Results (with appendices by P. Klingborg, F. and F. Kärfve, C. Hagberg, O. Svensson, S. Macheridis, and L. Franz). Opuscula 4. 69–98
Fischer, P. M., and Bürge, T.. The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2015: Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke; Preliminary Results (with a contribution by D. Kofel).. Opuscula 9. 2016

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