Wadi Fidan 628 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: Wadi Fidan 628

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Wadi Fidan 628

Country/region:

Jordan/Wadi 'Arabah

Alternate names & spellings:

WFD 628

Coordinates (N,E):

30.656086 , 35.39691

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Early Islamic - Umayya...

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Site Description

This site is primarily a lithic and pottery scatter located on the western bank of Wadi Fidan, near 'Ayn Fidan. Associated material dated to the Early Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman-Early Islamic periods.

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Related Images

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Vessels 1

Wadi Fidan 628 R. 19286

Basin

Wadi Fidan 628

600-800 CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 0

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Site/Project URLs
Database Links

DAAHL (https://gaialab.terrawatchers.org/DAAHL/SitesDataView.php?SiteNo=353000145)

Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Ayla Ware

5th to mid-8th c. CE

Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid

Associated Petro-fabrics

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Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Knabb, Kyle A., Ian W. N. Jones, Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy. "Patterns of Iron Age Mining and Settlement in Jordan’s Faynan District: The Wadi al-Jariya Survey in Context" in New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan, ed(s). Thomas E. Levy, Mohammad Najjar, and Erez Ben-Yosef. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2014, 577-625 , Page 612.

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

Surveyed by the Jabal Hamrat Fidan Project, with thanks due to Thomas E. Levy and Kyle A. Knabb.