Israel/Galilee
Hellenistic
Cooking/Food production
Ceramic paste with 10-12% quartz sand, poorly sorted, rounded and relatively coarse, varying in size between 0.2 and 0.6 mm, as well as well-sorted rounded to sub-angular quartz sand 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 sherds' 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. The firing temperature is estimated at 700-750ºC.
