Tell el-Burak | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: Tell el-Burak

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Tell el-Burak

Country/region:

Lebanon/Southern Coast

Alternate names & spellings:

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Coordinates (N,E):

33.482088 , 35.322336

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Middle Bronze Age I, Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC, Iron Age III/Achaemenid Persian

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Site Description

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Related Images

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Vessels 195

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Tell Burak 14-29/24-274-016

Transport amphora

Tell el-Burak

650 - 600 BCE

Iron Age IIC

Tell Burak 15-29/21-065-194

Transport amphora

Tell el-Burak

8th - 5th/4th c. BCE

Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC, Iron Age III/Achaemenid Persian

Tell Burak 14-29/24-236-R029

Transport amphora

Tell el-Burak

650 - 600 BCE

Iron Age IIC

Tell Burak 13-29/23-019-516

Transport amphora

Tell el-Burak

750 - 650 BCE

Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 82

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Tell Burak 15-29/21-066-201 PS
Tell Burak 15-29/21-066-201
Tell el-Burak

8th - 5th/4th c. BCE

Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC, Iron Age III/Achaemenid Persian

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Polarized Light?
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Tell Burak 15-29/21-011-610 PS
Tell Burak 15-29/21-011-610
Tell el-Burak

8th - 5th/4th c. BCE

Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC, Iron Age III/Achaemenid Persian

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Polarized Light?
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14.29.24.282.60
Tell el-Burak 00002
Tell el-Burak

800-650 BCE

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Polarized Light?
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14.29.23.19.1075
Tell el-Burak 0003
Tell el-Burak

800-650 BCE

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Polarized Light?
XPL

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Site/Project URLs

(https://vici.org/vici/61688/)

(https://sites.google.com/site/wedigboats/home/tell-el-burak)

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Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

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Associated Petro-fabrics

Israel-Palestinian Authority/Calcareous/foraminiferous rendzina soil on Upper Cretaceous formations

Jordan/Aqaba Highlands/Aila Mica

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

Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Kamlah, Jens; Sader, Hélène. "Excavations on Tell el-Burak (Lebanon). Preliminary Report of the First Three Seasons (2001-2003)" Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises 7 (2003), 145-173
Aaron Schmitt, Kamal Badreshany, Evgenia Tachatou and Hélène Sader. "Insights into the economic organization of the Phoenician homeland: a multi-disciplinary investigation of the later Iron Age II and Persian period Phoenician amphorae from Tell el-Burak" Levant 50 (2018), 52-90

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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