Nebi Mend x652 PS | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: Nebi Mend x652 PS

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Vessel Registration Number:

Nebi Mend x652

Site Name

Tell Nebi Mend

Date

2700 - 2000 BCE

Shape

Jar

Country/Region

Syria/Orontes Valley

Period

Early Bronze Age III, Early...

Functional Category

Transport/Storage

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Description

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 2B is unique because it exhibits more fossiliferous limestones than any other sub-fabric in Fabric 2 (Badreshany et al 2019).

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Nebi Mend x652

Jar

Tell Nebi Mend

2700 - 2000 BCE

Early Bronze Age III, Early Bronze Age IV

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Syria / Biqa' Valley

Inclusions

Quartz grains, limestone fragments

Geological Formation

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Local Petrographic Group

2B (Badreshany et al 2019)

Raw Material

Calcite-rich clay

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Associated Petrofabric

Lebanon/Biqa Valley/Northern Coast/Jurassic–Middle Cretaceous Limestones Alluvial Colluvial

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

Central Levantine EBA "Combed Ware"

c. 3050-2200 BCE

Early Bronze Age II, Early Bronze Age III

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Bibliography

Kamal Badreshany, Graham Philip, and Melissa Kennedy. "The development of integrated regional economies in the Early Bronze Age Levant: new evidence from ‘Combed Ware’ jars" Levant 52 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2019.1641009 , Table 2.

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