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Site name (primary, secondary):

Yotvata, early Islamic estate

Country/region:

Israel/Negev

Alternate names & spellings:

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Coordinates (N,E):

29.8949102758 , 35.0607605324

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

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Site Description

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Related Images

Yotvata, area view, 1950s (Benno Rothenberg /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)

Yotvata, plan of archaeological sites (Taxel et al. 2022, fig. 2)

Vessels 9

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Yotvata L. 120, b. 672

Body sherd, shape indeterminable

Yotvata, early Islamic estate

late 7th/early 8th - 9th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Yotvata L. 145, b. 777/2

Body sherd, shape indeterminable

Yotvata, early Islamic estate

late 7th/early 8th - 9th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Yotvata L. 120, b. 668

Bowl

Yotvata, early Islamic estate

late 7th/early 8th c. - 9th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Yotvata L. 125, b. 562

Open vessel, small

Yotvata, early Islamic estate

late 7th-early 8th - 9th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Break Photos 2

Yotvata L. 125, b. 562

Open vessel, small

Yotvata, early Islamic estate

late 7th-early 8th - 9th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Yotvata L. 149, b. 714

Bowl

Yotvata, early Islamic estate

late 7th/early 8th - 9th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Petrographic Samples 5

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Yotvata L. 120, b. 672 TS
Yotvata L. 120, b. 672
Yotvata, early Islamic estate

late 7th/early 8th - 9th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Magnification:
50

Polarized Light?
PPL

Yotvata L. 145, b. 777/2 TS
Yotvata L. 145, b. 777/2
Yotvata, early Islamic estate

late 7th/early 8th - 9th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Magnification:
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Polarized Light?
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Yotvata L. 125, b. 562 TS
Yotvata L. 125, b. 562
Yotvata, early Islamic estate

late 7th-early 8th - 9th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Magnification:
100

Polarized Light?
PPL

Yotvata L. 145, b. 777/1 TS
Yotvata L. 145, b. 777/1
Yotvata, early Islamic estate

late 7th/early 8th c. - 9th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Magnification:
100

Polarized Light?
PPL

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Site/Project URLs
Database Links

OpenStreetMaps (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746721/osm-location)

Pleiades (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746721/?searchterm=yotvata*)

Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Early Islamic Negev Highlands Crude Handmade Ware

mid-7th - 9th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid

Associated Petro-fabrics

Israel/Negev; Wadi 'Arabah/Hazeva Formation/shales, quartz, feldspar, chert

Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Itamar Taxel, Orit Shamir, Paula Waiman-Barak, Willie Ondricek and Etan Ayalon. "Early Islamic Crude Handmade Ware: New Insights on the Typology, Chronology and Provenance of a Southern Levantine Handmade Pottery" Oxford Journal of Archaeology 41.3 (2022), 2-25

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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