Caesarea Maritima | The Levantine Ceramics Project

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Caesarea Maritima

Country/region:

Israel/Central Coastal...

Alternate names & spellings:

Caesarea, Caesarea Mar...

Coordinates (N,E):

32.0 , 34.0

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Hellenistic, Late Hell...

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Site Description

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Related Images

Caesarea Maritima, looking north, with the Temple Platform and harbor in the foreground (BLE image).

Caesarea Maritima, looking north, with the Theater, Promontory Palace, and Circus in the foreground and center.

Vessels 190

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Caesarea Maritima A5925 1120-73

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

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Late Roman, Byzantine

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/18

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

6th - 7th c. CE

Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/27

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

6th - 7th c. CE

Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Caesarea, Field G, Area 9, Locus 9005, Byzantine Lamp reg no. C.9.132

Lamp, mold-made

Caesarea Maritima

600 - 650

Byzantine

Break Photos 27

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Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/21

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

c.500 - 600 CE

Byzantine

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/3

Amphora

Caesarea Maritima

6th - 7th c. CE

Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/14

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

5th - 7th c. CE

Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 15/91-79/5

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

Late 6th - 7th c. CE

Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Petrographic Samples 28

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Caesarea Maritima A5925 1120-73 PS
Caesarea Maritima A5925 1120-73
Caesarea Maritima

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Late Roman, Byzantine

Magnification:
100X

Polarized Light?
XPL

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/18 PS
Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/18
Caesarea Maritima

6th - 7th c. CE

Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Magnification:
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Polarized Light?
XPL

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/27 PS
Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/27
Caesarea Maritima

6th - 7th c. CE

Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Magnification:
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Polarized Light?
XPL

Caesarea Maritima A5925 1120-110 PS
Caesarea Maritima A5925 1120-110
Caesarea Maritima

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Magnification:
200X

Polarized Light?
XPL

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Site/Project URLs

Caesarea-Maritima.org (https://caesarea-maritima.org/about.html)

Cornell University Excavations at the Promontory Palace (http://www.caesarea.landscape.cornell.edu)

Database Links

DAAHL (https://daahl.ucsd.edu/DAAHL/SitesDataView.php?SiteNo=343200144)

OpenStreetMaps (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/266828122#map=16/32.5007/34.8929)

Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Cypriot Red Slip IV (VI)

480-350 BCE

Cypro-Classical

Black-Slipped Predecessor (BSP)

2nd century BCE

Hellenistic

Eastern Sigillata A (ESA)

late 2nd century BCE - 2nd century CE

Hellenistic, Roman

Cypriot Sigillata/Eastern Sigillata D (ESD)

1st century BCE - 1st century CE

Roman

Late Roman Amphora 1 (LRA 1)

4th - 8th centuries CE

Late Roman, Early Byzantine, Byzantine, Late Roman

African Red Slip ware (ARS)

Associated Petro-fabrics

Israel/Central Coastal Plain/red loamy soil/Hamra

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

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

Lebanon/Southern Coast/Neogene Marl/Quartz Inclusions and Marine Biogenic Debris

Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Alexandra Ratzlaff; Ehud Galili; Paula Waiman-Barak; Assaf Yasur-Landau. "The Plurality of Harbors at Caesarea: The Southern Anchorage in Late Antiquity" Journal of Maritime Archaeology 12:2 (2017), 125-146/DOI 10.1007/s11457-017-9173-z

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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Site: Caesarea Maritima

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Site Description

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Vessels 190

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Petrographic Samples 28

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Associated Petro-fabrics

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Bibliography

Discussion/Acknowledgements