Lebanon/Northern Coast
Early Bronze Age III
Transport/Storage
All samples of this fabric are composed of a clay-rich groundmass, rich in microcrystalline calcite, which in most cases has an optically active crystallic b-fabric. Less commonly, a highly sintered optically inactive fabric is noted, indicating a relatively high firing temperature. Of Fabric 2 (Badreshany et al 2019), six sub-fabrics (A–F) could be differentiated by an increasing degree of coarseness, and variations in quartz and calcareous minerals. Sub-fabric 2C is composed of fossiliferous limestone, as 2B (Badreshany et al 2019), but is finer grained, containing fine to medium sand-sized quartz (10–20%).
Lebanese Coast /
Quartz grains, limestone fragments
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2C (Badreshany et al 2019)
Calcite-rich clay
