'Akko/Acre | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: 'Akko/Acre

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

'Akko/Acre

Country/region:

Israel/Northern Coastal Plain

Alternate names & spellings:

Ake, Ptolemais

Coordinates (N,E):

32.92105712 , 35.06774953

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Late Bronze Age, Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic, Hellenistic, Roman, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid, Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk, Ottoman

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Vessels 134

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'Akko KH 1205/3

Cooking pot

'Akko/Acre

1099 CE - 1291 CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk

'Akko KH 3041

Cooking ware jar

'Akko/Acre

1099 CE - 1291 CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk

'Akko HC 130369/1

Cooking ware jar

'Akko/Acre

1099 CE - 1291 CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk

'Akko KH 3452/2

Cooking pot

'Akko/Acre

1099 CE - 1291 CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk

Break Photos 8

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'Akko HC 250654

Tobacco pipe

'Akko/Acre

late 17th CE to early 18th CE

Ottoman

'Akko HC 220014/A

Tobacco pipe

'Akko/Acre

late 17th CE to early 18th CE

Ottoman

'Akko HC 300351/2

Tobacco pipe

'Akko/Acre

c. 1750-1800 CE

Ottoman

'Akko HC 270050/1

Tobacco pipe

'Akko/Acre

c. 1750-1800 CE

Ottoman

Petrographic Samples 51

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Akko min 001
Akko P 8600/91
'Akko/Acre

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Late Bronze Age

Magnification:
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Polarized Light?
XPL

Akko Pers 009
Akko B: 675/165
'Akko/Acre

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Achaemenid Persian

Magnification:
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Polarized Light?
XPL

Akko2010.A1
Akko 508/4017/6
'Akko/Acre

332 BCE - 63 BCE

Hellenistic

Magnification:
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Polarized Light?
XPL

Akko min 003
Akko P 8588/28
'Akko/Acre

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Late Bronze Age

Magnification:
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Polarized Light?
XPL

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Site/Project URLs
Database Links

OpenStreetMaps (https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Akko#map=13/32.9156/35.0815)

Pleiades (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678010?searchterm=Akko+Ptolema)

Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Kelenderis Band-Painted ware

7th-4th BCE

Iron Age III, Achaemenid Persian

Southern Phoenician Hellenistic Red Slipped Ware

3rd -2nd centuries BCE

Achaemenid Persian, Hellenistic

Sgraffito Ware ("Serçe Limani type")

11th - 12th centuries CE

Frankish/Ayyubid

Beirut Frankish Glazed Ware (BE.GL)

12th - 13th centuries CE

Frankish/Ayyubid

Beirut Frankish Plain Ware (BE.PL)

12th - 13th centuries CE

Frankish/Ayyubid

Northern Lebanese Frankish amphoras

12th - 13th centuries CE

Frankish/Ayyubid

Northern Lebanese Frankish Table Ware

12th - 13th centuries CE

Frankish/Ayyubid

Southern Lebanese coastal Frankish ware

12th - 13th centuries CE

Frankish/Ayyubid

Cypriot Medieval Hand-Made Ware

c. 1100 CE to c.1600 CE

Late Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian

Acre Ware

1191 CE - 1489 CE

Crusader-Frankish/Ayyubid/early Mamluk

Tophane ware

1800-1920

Ottoman

Beirut Frankish Cooking Ware (BE.CW)

638 CE to 12th - 13th centuries CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid, Frankish/Ayyubid

Associated Petro-fabrics

Cyprus/Troodos mountains/volcaniclastic sediments with plutonics, diabase, basalt rocks and pillow lavas

Cyprus/Western South Coast/Iron rich fabric with mud stone and quartzite

Israel/Northern Coastal Plain ferruginous/quartz and biogenic sand

Israel/Northern Coastal Plain ferruginous/quartz sand

Lebanon/Central Coast/ferruginous shale and mature quartz

Turkey/Eastern Mediterranean/Alluvial soils/Mica

Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Andrea M. Berlin and Peter J. Stone. "The Hellenistic and Early Roman Pottery" in ‘Akko II. The 1991-1998 Excavations. The Early Periods, ed(s). M. Hartal, D. Syon, E. Stern, and A. Tatcher. IAA Reports 60. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2016, 133-202
Monnickendam-Givon, B.; Rotem, Y.; Yashuv, T.; Sharpberg, S.; Sabar, R.; Gutfeld, O.; and Kohn-Tavor, A.. "ʽAkko, Railway Station: Preliminary Report", 2017. Hadashot Arkheologiyot- Excavations and Surveys in Israel, 129, http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detail_Eng.aspx?id=25224, 12/2/2019
Stern Edna J. ‘Akko I: The 1991–1998 Excavations; The Crusader-Period Pottery . IAA Reports 51. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2012
Shapiro Anastasia. "Petrographic Analysis of the Crusader-Period Pottery" in ‘Akko I: The 1991–1998 Excavations; The Crusader-Period Pottery . IAA Reports 51/1. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2012, 103–126
Shapiro, Anastasia. "Ottoman Clay Tobacco Pipes and Nargile Heads from the Flour Mills in the Ridwan Gardens, 'Akko" 'Atiqot 87 (2016), 97-102

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