Petrographic sample: TeixeiraBastos 60

Vessel Registration Number:

Bet She’an74-1181

Beth She'an, Scythopolis

1st CE to 4th CE

Lamp, discus

Israel/Beth She'an Valley

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 rock)...

Thin Section Photos  4


Lamp, discus
Beth She'an
1st CE to 4th CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Beth She'an
1st CE to 4th CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Beth She'an
1st CE to 4th CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Beth She'an
1st CE to 4th CE
Roman

Break Photos  0

Vessel Images  3


Lamp, discus
Beth She'an
1st CE to 4th CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Beth She'an
1st CE to 4th CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Beth She'an
1st CE to 4th 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