B'ir Samut | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: B'ir Samut

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

B'ir Samut

Country/region:

Egypt/Eastern desert/Red Sea Coast

Alternate names & spellings:

Bir Samut, Bi'r Samût, Proembesis

Coordinates (N,E):

24.8102079 , 33.9049305

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Late Period, Early Hellenistic/Ptolemaic, Hellenistic/Ptolemaic, Early Roman

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Site Description

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Related Images

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Vessels 48

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Samut 1307.46

Cooking pot

B'ir Samut

late 3rd century BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Samut MI-8-016

Krater

B'ir Samut

6th-4th c. BCE

Late Period

Samut MI-8-018

Krater

B'ir Samut

late 4th-3rd c. BCE

Early Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Samut 2524.01

Jar, storage

B'ir Samut

late 3rd century BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Break Photos 9

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Samut 1307.46

Cooking pot

B'ir Samut

late 3rd century BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Samut 5302.09

Krater

B'ir Samut

late 3rd century BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Samut 1552.02

Amphora

B'ir Samut

late 3rd century BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Samut 2504.08

Flask

B'ir Samut

late 3rd century BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Petrographic Samples 2

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5301.06 break
Samut 5302.09
B'ir Samut

late 3rd century BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

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1552.02 EA1
Samut 1552.02
B'ir Samut

late 3rd century BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Site/Project URLs
Database Links

OpenStreetMaps (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/265071930)

Pleiades (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786105)

Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Upper Egyptian Marl Common ware

6th century BCE - 1st century CE

Late Period, Hellenistic/Ptolemaic, Roman

Ptolemaic Black Slipped ware

later 4th century BCE - early 1st century CE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic, Roman

Eastern Desert Ptolemaic Handmade Cooking ware

3rd century BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Egyptian Chaff-tempered Handmade Ware

3rd mill. BCE - early 1st centuries BCE

Old Kingdom, First Intermediate Period, Second Intermediate Period, Third Intermediate Period/Saite, Late Period, Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Aswan Ptolemaic-Roman Common ware

2nd century BCE - 3rd century CE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic, Roman

Ptolemaic-Roman Red Slipped Nile Silt Common ware

2nd century BCE - 3rd century CE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic, Roman

Egyptian Marl Thin-Walled ware

1st century CE

Roman

Nubian Hellenistic Fine Ware

Associated Petro-fabrics

Egypt/Marl Clay

Egypt/Nile Clay

Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Steven E. Sidebotham and Jennifer E. Gates-Foster, ed(s). The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads Between Berenike and the Nile Valley. Expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1987-2015, American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports 26. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2019 , Page(s) 194-201.

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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