Legio/Lejjun | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: Legio/Lejjun

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Legio/Lejjun

Country/region:

Israel/Jezreel Valley

Alternate names & spellings:

Caporcotani, Lajjun, Maximianopolis

Coordinates (N,E):

32.575288 , 35.1863785

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

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

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Site Description

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Related Images

Legio, The Via Pretoria (photo by Emil Aladiem, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

Vessels 75

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Lejoun (A-5320) L:140 B:1113-1 DB:791

Bowl

Legio/Lejjun

14th - 15th c. CE

Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Legio/Lejjun A-3417/23/184/1

Tile

Legio/Lejjun

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Roman

Legio/Lejjun A-3417/27/170

Tile

Legio/Lejjun

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Roman

Legio/Lejjun A-3417/5/126

Tile

Legio/Lejjun

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Roman

Break Photos 5

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Lajjun B-449.17/A/001.007

Bowl, ledge rim

Legio/Lejjun

11th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Lajjun 2017/A/004/015/2

Jug/pitcher

Legio/Lejjun

12th Century CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk

Lajjun 2017/A/001/007/1

Bowl, hemispherical

Legio/Lejjun

12th Century CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk

Legio/Lejjun A-3417/23/184/1

Tile

Legio/Lejjun

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Roman

Petrographic Samples 18

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Lejoun 001
Lejoun (A-5320) L:140 B:1113-1 DB:791
Legio/Lejjun

14th - 15th c. CE

Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

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Polarized Light?
XPL

Lejoun 017
Lejoun L:120 B:1053-7 DB:815
Legio/Lejjun

13th c. CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk

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Polarized Light?
XPL

Lejoun 008
Lejoun L:120 B:1053-4 DB:806
Legio/Lejjun

14th - 15th c. CE

Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

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Polarized Light?
XPL

Lejoun 004
Lejoun L:159 B:1144-27 DB:797
Legio/Lejjun

14th - 15th c. CE

Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

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Polarized Light?
XPL

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Site/Project URLs
Database Links

Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/21660.html)

Pleiades (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678266)

Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Medieval-Modern Levantine Handmade Unpainted ware

10th c. - 20th c. CE

Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Ottoman, Ottoman

Early Islamic wheel-made Levantine Cooking Ware

11th - 13th centuries CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid, Early Medieval/Middle Islamic, Frankish/Ayyubid

Medieval-Modern Levantine handmade geometric painted ware (HMGP)

11th c. CE - 20th c. CE

Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Ottoman, Ottoman

Levantine Early Islamic Alkaline Glazed Wares

c. 1050 CE-c. 1200 CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid, Frankish/Ayyubid

Beirut Frankish Glazed Ware (BE.GL)

12th - 13th centuries CE

Frankish/Ayyubid

Legio 6 Roof Tiles

Roman

Associated Petro-fabrics

Israel/Lebanon/Paleogene foraminiferous/Taqiye marl

Israel-Palestinian Authority/Lower Cretaceous/argillaceous/shales-mature sandstone-siltstone

Taqiye marl, coastal quartz sand and coarse basalt sand for Ceramic Building Materials

Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Yotam Tepper. "The Roman Legionary Camp at Legio, Israel: Results of an Archaeological Survey and Observations on the Roman Military Presence at the Site" in The Late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab Conquest, ed(s). Ariel S. Lewin and Pietrina Pellegrini. BAR International Series 1717 Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007, 57-71
Yotam Tepper, Jonathan David, and Matthew J. Adams. "Excavations at the Camp of the Roman Sixth Ferrata Legion at Legio (el-Lajjun), Israel. A Preliminary Report of the 2013 season" Strata: The Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 34 (2017), 87-120

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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