Horbat Castra | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: Horbat Castra

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Horbat Castra

Country/region:

Israel/Carmel Mountains

Alternate names & spellings:

Horbat Kastra, Horbat ...

Coordinates (N,E):

32.791667 , 34.970833

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Late Roman, Byzantine

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Site Description

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Related Images

Hurvat Castra, Haifa, Israel. By Bukvoed - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hurvat-Castra-52.jpg#/media/File:Hurvat-Castra-52.jpg

Hurbat Castra – Byzantine Period 4th-7th Centuries. By Hanay - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11940513

Vessels 3

Horbat Castra 2009.F3.2

Transport amphora

Horbat Castra

350 - 650 CE

Late Roman, Byzantine

Horbat Castra 2009.F3.3

Transport amphora

Horbat Castra

350 - 650 CE

Late Roman, Byzantine

Horbat Castra L. 102, b. 1010/6

Transport amphora

Horbat Castra

4 - 6th c. CE

Late Roman, Byzantine

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 0

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Associated Wares/Ware Families

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Late Roman Amphora 1 (LRA 1)

4th - 8th centuries CE

Late Roman, Early Byzantine, Byzantine, Late Roman

Associated Petro-fabrics

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Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Haddad, E. "Roman Byzantine Amphorae from a Terrestrial Site and its Underwater Environs: Horbat Castra and Kfar Samir (Southern Levant) as a Case Study" Levant 41 (2009), 79-91
Van den Brink, E.C.M.; Rutgaizer, O.; Gorin-Rosen, Y.; Horwitz, L.K.; Liphschitz, N.; and Mienis, H.K. "Two Roman–Byzantine Subsurface Features at Horbat Qastra (Castra), at the Foot of Mount Carmel" 'Atiqot 75 (2013), 71-127