Petrographic sample: TeixeiraBastos 38

Vessel Registration Number:

YafoB6143

Jaffa

2nd CE to 3rd CE

Lamp, discus

Israel/Central Coastal Plain

Roman

Lighting

Description

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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 ...

Thin Section Photos  7

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Lamp, discus
Jaffa
2nd CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Jaffa
2nd CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Jaffa
2nd CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Jaffa
2nd CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Break Photos  0

Vessel Images  3


Lamp, discus
Jaffa
2nd CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Jaffa
2nd CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Jaffa
2nd CE to 3rd CE
Roman

Petrographic Sample

Tell el-Burak / 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