Israel/Galilee
Hellenistic
Cooking/Food production
A rather ferruginous clay matrix containing 1-2% of angular quartz silt. Ceramic paste was intensively tempered by quartz sand, which grains are well-sorted rounded to sub-angular and range between 0.1-0.2 mm. Rare sub-angular to angular plagioclase and chert have same granulometry. Coarse (0.5-0.8 mm) rounded quartz grains and chalk balls are rare. The sand composes 20% of the sherd's volume.
The cross-sections are severely crackled and most of the cracks are oriented parallel to the section edges. This is a result of over-tempered paste.
Firing temperature for the samples of this petrographic group was estimated 700-750ºC because very ferruginous clay used for their matrix could reach the sintering at lower temperature (Gopher, 1992...
5th century BCE - 2nd century CE
Achaemenid Persian, Hellenistic, Roman
