Israel/Galilee
Byzantine
Transport/Storage
Fabric is a light gray-green color in PPL, and very highly sintered.
Little quartz silt. Some silt sized heavy minerals.
Poorly sorted inclusions. Including feldspar, maybe some sort of peridotite rock? there is olivine. Pyroxene with good cleavage. Acidic igneous minerals, maybe feldspar.
Compare to Kition and Kourion material.
4th - 8th centuries CE
Late Roman, Early Byzantine, Byzantine, Late Roman