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Early Hellenistic
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Matrix: Brown to reddish-brown clayey matrix, optically active (weak?), moderately to poorly sorted, with 1-3% coarse clay/fine silty calcareous (high birefringence) and translucent brown grains (biotite?); foraminifera absent; some clay nodules observed
Non-plastic inclusions:
c. 1400 BCE - 37 BCE
Late Bronze Age III, Iron Age, Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic, Late Hellenistic