Afula001 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: Afula001

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Vessel Registration Number:

Afula L:181 B:1347 Reg. No: 651

Site Name

Afula

Date

13th - 15th c. CE

Shape

Bowl

Country/Region

Israel/Jezreel Valley

Period

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/e...

Functional Category

Dining/Drinking/Serving

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Description

The fabric is a dark silty-fine marl, double-open spaced with ~10% voids. The non-plastic inclusions are: 12% sub-angular to rounded clay pellets/shale (100-700 μm), 5% sub-angular to angular quartz (30-100 μm); some: sub-angular to sub-rounded opaque minerals (20-40 μm), rhomboid dolomite (40-70 μm), sub-angular to sub-rounded calcareous concretions (40-200 μm).

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Afula L:181 B:1347 Reg. No: 651

Bowl

Afula

13th - 15th c. CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk, Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

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Afula L:181 B:1347 Reg. No: 651

Bowl

Afula

13th - 15th c. CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk, Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

Western Galilee (?) /

Inclusions

Clay pellets/shale, quartz

Geological Formation

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Local Petrographic Group

Local group 1a (Gabrieli et al 2014)

Raw Material

Marl/shale

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Associated Petrofabric

Israel-Palestinian Authority/Lower Cretaceous/argillaceous/shales-mature sandstone-siltstone

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

Medieval-Modern Levantine handmade geometric painted ware (HMGP)

11th c. CE - 20th c. CE

Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Ottoman, Ottoman

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Bibliography

Gabrieli R.S., Ben-Shlomo D. and Walker B.J. 2014. "Production and Distribution of Geometric-Painted (HMGP) and Plain Hand-Made Wares of the Mamluk Period: A Case Study from Northern Israel, Jerusalem and Hisban" Journal of Islamic Archaeology 1 (2015), 193-229

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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