Petrographic sample: TeixeiraBastos 1

Vessel Registration Number:

Sasa 74-2098

Sasa

1st -2rd CE

Lamp, discus

Israel/Galilee

Roman

Lighting

Description

Fabric Description
Surface Colour: Exterior 10YR - 3/2 (buff) and interior 10YR - 8/6 (cream). Brown slip.
Break Colour: 10YR7/3 (pale brown)
Colour PPL: Orange-tan
Colour XPL: Orange-tan in middle; light brown on edges


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.
Birefringence: Zones of preferred optical orientation, birefringent
Frequence: about 3% to 5% Few foraminifers, Very rare silt (<1%), Iron oxide stain.



Roundness and Angularity: Subrounded to subangular fragments of micritic limestone (<1mm). Isolated polycrystalline fragments of
policristalin quartz with common liquid and mineral inclusions. Fine subangular to subrounded quartz sand grains (150-180μm). Very
rare rounded calcareous rock fragments, fine micritic calcite and microfossils (<100μm).
Spacing: Doublespaced
Orientation: Vertical
Alignment: Moderate
Texture: Very Poorly Sorted



Grain size distribution: Weakly bimodal
Extinction: Undulose
Crystal form: subhedral to euhedral
Boundaries of inclusions: Sharp to Merging
Optical Density: Low
Concordance: Concordant
Firing: <700

Thin Section Photos  8

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Lamp, discus
Sasa
1st -2rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Sasa
1st -2rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Sasa
1st -2rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Sasa
1st -2rd CE
Roman

Break Photos  3


Lamp, discus
Sasa
1st -2rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Sasa
1st -2rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Sasa
1st -2rd CE
Roman

Vessel Images  7

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Lamp, discus
Sasa
1st -2rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Sasa
1st -2rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Sasa
1st -2rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Sasa
1st -2rd CE
Roman

Petrographic Sample

Tell el-Burak / Lebanon

Tell el-Burak / Lebanon / Lebanon

Chhim / Lebanon

Porphyreon / Lebanon

LIM, CHERP. CHA, QTZ, QIT, MF, CAL, FDP, FOX, CP

Quaternary Coast, Neogene marl

Lebanon southern coast

Rendzina

Associated Ware/Ware Family