Petrographic sample: TeixeiraBastos 89

Vessel Registration Number:

Sekhem43264

Shechem, Nablus

3rd CE to 4th CE

Lamp, discus

Israel-Palestinian Authority/Central Highlands

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  17

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Lamp, discus
Shechem
3rd CE to 4th CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Shechem
3rd CE to 4th CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Shechem
3rd CE to 4th CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Shechem
3rd CE to 4th CE
Roman

Break Photos  0

Vessel Images  13

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Lamp, discus
Shechem
3rd CE to 4th CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Shechem
3rd CE to 4th CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Shechem
3rd CE to 4th CE
Roman

Lamp, discus
Shechem
3rd 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