Petrographic sample: Apollonia 2775

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Apollonia 2775

Apollonia, Arsuf

1st CE to 3rd CE

Lamp, discus

Israel/Central Coastal Plain

Roman

Lighting

Description

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Matrix: Clayey; Sedimentary Carbonates; Angular opaque minerals at the fine fraction (2% - sizing up to 100μm), subrounded at the coarser grain sizes. Quartz silt (1%) with few amount of plagioclase. Dense carbonate crystals (15% sizing 10μm - occasionally 20μm or 30μm); Calcareous clay.
Soil Type: rendzina
Inclusions: exhibiting coastal bioclasts (beach sand) and limestone, some silty and quartz. Rounded fragments of fossiliferous coastal limestone (Beach rock), separate fossils (<650μm) are frequent to dominant. Calcareous corallinean algae Amphiroa genus fossils, with some mollusc shell fragments. Replacement chert (smoky to brown-stained, up to 1.3mm). Frequent local intergrowth of chalcedony.
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Lamp, discus
Apollonia
1st CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Apollonia
1st CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Apollonia
1st CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Apollonia
1st CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Break Photos  0

Vessel Images  2


Lamp, discus
Apollonia
1st CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Apollonia
1st CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Petrographic Sample

Coastal bioclasts (beach sand), limestone, some silty and quartz. Frequent rounded fragments of fossiliferous coastal limestone (Beach rock), separate fossils (<650μm). Calcareous corallinean algae Amphiroa genus fossils.

Associated Ware/Ware Family