Tell Qasile | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: Tell Qasile

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Tell Qasile

Country/region:

Israel/Central Coastal...

Alternate names & spellings:

Al-Shaykh Muwannis , S...

Coordinates (N,E):

32.10113891 , 34.79485782

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Iron Age I, Iron Age I...

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Site Description

Kurkar from section, hill east of tell Qasile

Thin section of Kurkar from section, hill east of Tell Qasile X100

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Related Images

Vessels 145

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Qasile 3699

Krater

Tell Qasile

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Qasile 3181/3171

Bowl

Tell Qasile

End of 12th to 11th c. BCE

Iron Age IA

Qasile 3699 5869

Bowl

Tell Qasile

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Qasile L: 188, 187

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Tell Qasile

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Break Photos 120

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Qasile L131 B3848

Flask

Tell Qasile

11th to 10th c. BCE

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Qasile 4604

Amphora

Tell Qasile

10th to mid 9th c. BCE

Iron Age IIA

Qasile B: 8505/6

Jar

Tell Qasile

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Iron Age IB, Iron Age IIA

Qasile L: 426 B: 5505

Flask

Tell Qasile

c.-1200 to c.-1000

Iron Age I

Petrographic Samples 148

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Qasile 106 1050-27
Qasile 106 1050-27
Tell Qasile

End of 11th to begining of 10th c. BCE

Magnification:
200

Polarized Light?
XPL

Qasile 106 1047-9
Qasile 106 1047-9
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Magnification:
50

Polarized Light?
XPL

Qa 025
Qasile B: 2349
Tell Qasile

End of 12th to 11th c. BCE

Iron Age IA

Magnification:
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Polarized Light?
XPL

Qasile 301 3504-7
Qasile 301 3504-7
Tell Qasile

End of 12th to 11th c. BCE

Iron Age IA

Magnification:
X50

Polarized Light?
XPL

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

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Associated Wares/Ware Families

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Southern Levantine Bronze-Iron Age Plain Wares

3200-c. 550 BCE

Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age

Phoenician Monochrome Ware

c. 1350-1100 BCE

Late Bronze Age, Iron Age I, Iron Age I

Philistine cooking ware

12th - 7th centuries BCE

Iron Age I, Iron Age II

Philistine II: Iron Age Bichrome ware

1150 BCE - 1000 BCE

Iron Age I

Philistine II bell shaped skyphoi one colored or undecorated

End of 12th to 10th c. BCE

Iron Age IA

Qasile Bichrome Ware

End of 12th to 10th c. BCE

Iron Age IA

Qasile red-slip ware

End of 12th to 10th c. BCE

Iron Age IA

Phoenician Iron Age Bichrome Ware

1000-800 BCE

Iron Age

Late Philistine Decorated Ware (Ashdod Ware)

1000 BCE - 586 BCE

Iron Age II

Associated Petro-fabrics

Israel/Carmel Coast/calcareous clay/quartz and tuff

Israel/Carmel Coast/red loamy soil/quartz

Israel/Central Coastal Plain/calcareous clay/quartz and tuff

Israel/Central Coastal Plain/red loamy soil/Hamra

Israel/Jordan/Central Highlands/ferruginous clay/calcareous sand quartz silt and sand/dolomite silt (Terra Rossa)

Israel/Northern Coastal Plain/calcareous/biogenic sand

Israel/Northern Coastal Plain ferruginous/quartz and biogenic sand

Israel-Palestinian Authority/Southern Coast/alluvial clay/rounded sand and angular silt quartz

Israel/Shephelah/alluvial clay/calcareous sand quartz silt

Israel/Shephelah/ferruginous clay/calcareous sand quartz silt

Israel/Shephelah, Negev/loess/calcareous clay-calcareous sand

Lebanon/Southern Coast/Calcareous clay/Globigerinal Marl, Quartz and Biogenic Sand

Syria/Coast and Nusayriah Mountains/high bioclastic Content

Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Mazar, Amihai. Excavations at Tell Qasile, Part Two. QEDEM 20. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1985
Maisler (Mazar), Benjamin. "The Excavation of Tell Qasile" The Biblical Archaeologist 14 (2) (1951), 43-49
Mazar Amihai. "A Philistine Temple at Tell Qasile" The Biblical Archaeologist 36(2) (1973), 42-8
Mazar Amihai. "Excavations at Tell Qasile, 1982–1984: Preliminary Report" Israel Exploration Journal 36(1/2) (1986), 1-15
Mazar Amihai. Excavations at Tell Qasile: Part One: The Philistine Sanctuary: Architecture and Cult Objects.. Qedem 12. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1980