Tel Anafa | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: Tel Anafa

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Tel Anafa

Country/region:

Israel/Hula Valley

Alternate names & spellings:

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Coordinates (N,E):

33.174125 , 35.636429

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Achaemenid Persian, Ea...

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Site Description

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Related Images

view of Tel Anafa, looking north, taken 1968

aerial view of Tel Anafa, looking north, taken 1999

Vessels 55

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Tel Anafa PW211/TA68P21

Cooking pot

Tel Anafa

early-mid 1st c. CE

Early Roman

Tel Anafa TA72P158

Bowl, incurved rim

Tel Anafa

2nd century BCE

Middle Hellenistic

Tel Anafa TA70P13

Plate

Tel Anafa

ca. 150- 100/95 BCE

Middle Hellenistic, Late Hellenistic

Tel Anafa TA70P7

Plate

Tel Anafa

ca. 150 - 100/95 BCE

Middle Hellenistic, Late Hellenistic

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Tel Anafa MC 7/TA80P2

Jug/pitcher

Tel Anafa

11th-18th c. CE

Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Anafa TA70P186

Plate

Tel Anafa

late 2nd-1st c. BCE

Late Hellenistic, Early Roman

Anafa PW 12/TA69P11

Table Amphora

Tel Anafa

early 1st c. BCE

Late Hellenistic

Anafa PW 155/TA70P81

Saucer

Tel Anafa

early 1st c. BCE

Late Hellenistic

Petrographic Samples 0

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Site/Project URLs

Tel Anafa, Israel (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, The University of Michigan) (https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/research/past-field-projects/tel-anafa-israel.html)

The Tel Anafa Digital Portal (https://telanafa.org)

Database Links

Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678410/darmc-location-15045)

Pleiades (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678410)

Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Persian-period White ware

6th - 4th centuries BCE

Achaemenid Persian

Phoenician Semi-Fine ware

6th century BCE - 1st century CE

Iron Age III/Achaemenid Persian, Hellenistic, Early Roman

Hula Valley Coarse Orange Ware

c. 500-200 BCE

Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic

Hula Valley Spatter painted ware

5th - 1st centuries BCE

Achaemenid Persian, Hellenistic

Southern Phoenician Persian-Hellenistic Sandy Cooking Ware

5th century BCE - 2nd century CE

Achaemenid Persian, Hellenistic, Roman

Black-Slipped Predecessor (BSP)

2nd century BCE

Hellenistic

Eastern Sigillata A (ESA)

late 2nd century BCE - 2nd century CE

Hellenistic, Roman

Cypriot Late Hellenistic Gray Ware

1st c. BCE

Late Hellenistic/Hellenistic II

Kefar Hananya Ware

1st century BCE - 5th century CE

Roman, Byzantine

Eastern Sigillata B (ESB)

1st-3rd c. CE

Roman

Early Islamic Cream Wares - Jordan/Palestine

c. 700-1300 CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid, Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk

Early Roman Eastern Pink Ware

early-mid-1st c. CE

Early Roman

Associated Petro-fabrics

Northern Levantine-Cypriot Ophiolitic

Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Berlin, Andrea M. Tel Anafa II, i: The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery: The Plain Wares. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 10.2. Ann Arbor, MI: Kelsey Museum of the University of Michigan, 1997
Slane, Kathleen W. Tel Anafa II, ii: The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery: The Fine Wares. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 10.2. Ann Arbor, MI: Kelsey Museum of the University of Michigan, 1997

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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