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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Khirbet er-Rasm

Country/region:

Israel/Shephelah

Alternate names & spellings:

Kh. er-Rasm

Coordinates (N,E):

31.6908 , 34.913

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Iron Age I, Iron Age IB, Iron Age II, Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC, Neo-Babylonian Period, Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic, Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic, Late Hellenistic, Late Hellenistic-Early Roman, Early Roman, Herodian, Late Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid, Late Mamluk-Early Ottoman

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Site Description

The geological stratigraphy of the Shephelah is primarily composed of white chalk with chert lenses covered by a thick calcrete crust, known locally as nari. The chalk is of the middle Eocene Age, being the Shephelah group Maresha and Adulam members of the Zor‘ah formation. Relics of Neocene and Pleistocene sediments cover the Shephelah group by the following formations: Ziqlag, composed of bioclastic limestone and coralline and algal reefs; Beit Nir, composed of conglomerate altered to nari; Pleshet (in the lower Shephelah), composed of Calcareous pebbly sandstone; Ahuzam and Nahshon, composed of conglomerate of river terraces.

Oren Ackermann.2011.Environmental Background: Conditions of the Area in General.pp:5

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Hellenistic Pottery Khirbet er-Rasm

Vessels 100

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Rasm L. 161, b1159.2

Cooking pot

Khirbet er-Rasm

Fourth-second centuries BCE.

Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

Rasm L. 109, b.1030.1

Fish plate

Khirbet er-Rasm

The third century BCE-early second century BCE

Middle Hellenistic

Rasm L. 160, b.1196.1

Decanter

Khirbet er-Rasm

1Late second-first centuries BCE.

Late Hellenistic

Rasm L. 126, b.1061.1

Jar, bag-shaped

Khirbet er-Rasm

Persian period (fifth-fourth centuries BCE), Early Hellenistic period, turning into the squared, triangular profiled rims toward the second half of the second century.

Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic

Break Photos 13

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Rasm L. 824, b.8100.2

Jar, bag-shaped

Khirbet er-Rasm

L. 823, b.8101.9

Middle Hellenistic

Rasm L. 129, b.1064.1

Jar

Khirbet er-Rasm

3rd-2nd c. BCE

Middle Hellenistic, Late Hellenistic-Early Roman

Rasm L.170, b.1214.1

Jug/pitcher

Khirbet er-Rasm

Late second--early first centuries BCE.

Late Hellenistic

Rasm L115, b1044

Cooking pot

Khirbet er-Rasm

Second half of fourth-first centuries BCE; specifically, the end of the second century-first century BCE.

Late Hellenistic

Petrographic Samples 0

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

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Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Eastern Shephelah/Central Hills Plain Ware

c. 1400 BCE - 37 BCE

Late Bronze Age III, Iron Age, Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic, Late Hellenistic

Philistine II: Iron Age Bichrome ware

1150 BCE - 1000 BCE

Iron Age I

East Greek Wild Goat style

c. 7th-6th centuries BCE

Middle Archaic

Judean Hellenistic Lime-Flecked Cooking Ware

5th-2nd c. BCE

Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

Shephelah/Central Hills Persian-Hellenistic cooking ware

5th-2nd BCE

Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic

Classical-Hellenistic Atticizing wares

450-200 BCE

Classical, Hellenistic

Hellenistic Central Coastal Cooking Ware

3rd - 2nd centuries BCE

Hellenistic

Idumean Hellenistic chalk-flecked cooking ware

3rd - 2nd c. BCE

Hellenistic

Idumean Hellenistic chalk-flecked Semi-Fine Ware

3rd-2nd c. BCE

Hellenistic

Idumean Hellenistic Slipped Fine Ware

3rd-2nd c. BCE

Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic

Associated Petro-fabrics

Israel/Central Coastal Plain/red loamy soil/Hamra

Israel/Jordan/Lebanon/Highlands/ferruginous clay/calcareous sand quartz silt and sand/dolomite silt (Terra Rossa)

Israel/Lebanon/Paleogene foraminiferous/Taqiye marl

Israel-Palestinian Authority/Central Highlands/Moza clay

Israel-Palestinian Authority/Central Highlands/Moza clay/Aminadav sand-sized dolomite crystals

Israel-Palestinian Authority/Central Highlands/Moza marl/silt-size dolomite crystals

Israel/Shephelah/alluvial clay/calcareous sand quartz silt

Israel/Shephelah, Negev/loess/calcareous clay-calcareous sand

Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Debora Sandhaus. "The Typology of the Pottery from the Hellenistic, Roman and Later Periods " in The Excavations of Khirbet er-Rasm, Israel. The changing faces of the countryside , ed(s). Avraham Faust and Adi Erlich. BAR International Series 2187 Oxford: Archeopress, 2011, 105-134 , Page(s) 106-130.
, Page(s) 134-144.
, Page(s) 145-148.

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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