Tell Burak 14-29/23-019-1088 PS | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: Tell Burak 14-29/23-019-1088 PS

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Vessel Registration Number:

Tell Burak 14-29/23-019-1088

Site Name

Tell el-Burak

Date

750 - 650 BCE

Shape

Transport amphora

Country/Region

Lebanon/Southern Coast

Period

Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC

Functional Category

Transport/Storage

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Description

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Thin Section Photos 1

Tell Burak 14-29/23-019-1088

Transport amphora

Tell el-Burak

750 - 650 BCE

Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC

Break Photos 0

Vessel Images 1

Tell Burak 14-29/23-019-1088

Transport amphora

Tell el-Burak

750 - 650 BCE

Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Southern Coastal Lebanon /

Inclusions

Quartz grains, micritic limestone fragments

Geological Formation

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Local Petrographic Group

Fabric 2 (Schmitt et al 2019)

Raw Material

Calcareous clay

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Associated Petrofabric

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

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Bibliography

Aaron Schmitt, Kamal Badreshany, Evgenia Tachatou and Hélène Sader. "Insights into the economic organization of the Phoenician homeland: a multi-disciplinary investigation of the later Iron Age II and Persian period Phoenician amphorae from Tell el-Burak" Levant 50 (2018), 52-90

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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