Tel Kinrot, Tell el-‘Oreimeh

1100 - 1000 BCE

Skyphos

Israel/Galilee

Iron Age IB

Dining/Drinking/Serving

This petrographic sample—represented by this and two other bell-shaped bowls from Tel Kinrot (Table 11b: 108–110)—is characterized by yellowish-brown to orange-brown and brown, inactive, highly calcareous clays. The matrix is very sparse in quartzitic silt (up to 1%) and contains iron oxides and some scattered foraminifera. The most frequent (10% of the slide area) non-plastic component is poorly sorted, angular to sub-rounded basalt and basalt-derived (pyroxene) sand that appears in a grain size of up to 1200 µm. Poorly sorted calcareous sand—micritic and rarely sparitic limestone—appears less commonly (5%; up to 1250 µm). Rarer inclusions (1%) are fine to medium (up to 375 µm) quartz sand, most com...