Israel/Northern Coastal Plain
Middle Hellenistic, Late He...
Cooking/Food production
Clay matrix is orange-red in PPL, shifting towards a darker red near the core and then a mottled red-dark brown core. The fabric is silty (ca. 20% silt) and iron-rich. Silt is comprised of quartz, ferruginous concretions, opaques, and very rare heavy minerals. Frequent channel to vugh-shaped voids showing some preferred parallel orientation. Inclusions are poorly sorted and angular to sub-angular. Quartz is the dominant inclusion, ranging from fine sand (190 μm) to medium silt sized (15μm) grains, angular to sub-rounded. Few opaques are present, medium to fine silt sized and sub-rounded to rounded. Very few decomposed calcareous rock inclusions, medium sand-sized sub-rounded grains and some reaction rims.
Israel / Northern Coastal plain
Calcareous rock fragments, quartz, opaques
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Iron-rich clay
5th century BCE - 2nd century CE
Achaemenid Persian, Hellenistic, Roman
