Maresha/Marisa | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: Maresha/Marisa

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Site name (primary, secondary):

Maresha/Marisa

Country/region:

Israel/Shephelah

Alternate names & spellings:

Marissa, Tel Maresha, Tel Sandahanna

Coordinates (N,E):

31.592963 , 34.898241

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic, Late Hellenistic

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Related Images

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Vessels 198

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Maresha SC 169 3.9.4

Kantharos

Maresha/Marisa

3rd - 2nd BCE

Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

Maresha SC 169 3.1.1

Kantharos

Maresha/Marisa

3rd-2nd century BCE

Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

52/01 + 3567/02- 169-12-364 + 13-443

Plate

Maresha/Marisa

3rd-2nd century BCE

Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

4099/04-169-50-889-S1 + 50-724 + 50-768

Fish plate

Maresha/Marisa

3rd-2nd century BCE

Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

Break Photos 136

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Maresha SC 169 3.1.2

Plate

Maresha/Marisa

3rd-2nd century BCE

Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

Maresha SC 169 3.1.4

Plate

Maresha/Marisa

3rd-2nd century BCE

Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

Maresha SC 169 3.1.5

Plate

Maresha/Marisa

3rd-2nd century BCE

Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

Maresha SC 169 3.1.6

Plate

Maresha/Marisa

3rd-2nd century BCE

Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

Petrographic Samples 1

Maresha_3100.99.02.68.SP.1
Maresha_3100.99.02.68.SP.1
Maresha/Marisa

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Polarized Light?
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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/21689.html)

OpenStreetMaps (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/278470166)

Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Attic Black Glaze

8th c. BCE - 1st c. BCE

Classical, Hellenistic

Anatolian/Levantine West Slope-style wares

4th century BCE - 2st century BCE

Hellenistic, Hellenistic I

Cypriot Hellenistic brown slip ware

Late 4th - Early 2nd centuries BCE

Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

Ptolemaic Black Slipped ware

later 4th century BCE - early 1st century CE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic, Roman

Cilician Hellenistic Slipped Fine Ware

300-150 BCE

Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

Idumean Hellenistic chalk-flecked Semi-Fine Ware

3rd-2nd c. BCE

Hellenistic

Campana A Ware

3rd-1st c. BCE

Ptolemaic-Roman Red Slipped Nile Silt ware (Lower Egypt)

c. 3rd c. BCE - 2nd c. CE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic, Roman

Ptolemaic Painted Ware

mid-3rd - mid-2nd c. BCE

Hellenistic/Ptolemaic

Black-Slipped Predecessor (BSP)

2nd century BCE

Hellenistic

Eastern Sigillata A (ESA)

late 2nd century BCE - 2nd century CE

Hellenistic, Roman

Associated Petro-fabrics

Israel/Shephelah/ferruginous clay/calcareous sand quartz silt

Northern Levantine-Cypriot Ophiolitic

Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Ian Stern. Excavations at Maresha Subterranean Complex 169. Final Report. Seasons 2000-2016.. Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology XI. Jerusalem: 2019
Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom. "Imported Pottery and Selected Locally Made Vessels" in Excavations at Maresha Subterranean Complex 169. Final Report. Seasons 2000-2016., ed(s). Ian Stern. Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology XI. Jerusalem: 2019, 41-87

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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