Elephantine 28701Ec-K046 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Vessel: Elephantine 28701Ec-K046

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Context Information

Site Name

Aswan, Elephantine

Date

540-565 CE

Site Type

Town/Village

Country/Region

Egypt/Upper Egypt

Period

Byzantine

Archaeological Context

House M10, house, phase 5, rubbish

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Vessel Details

Shape

Cooking pot

Shape Type

Topf Typ 28 (Rembart 2018)

Fabric Description

I: 5YR4/3 Ex: 2.5YR5/6

Measurements (cms)

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Functional Category

Cooking/Food production

Surface treatment

dull slip on entire vessel and painting (10YR8/3) along rim

Manufacturing Technique

Wheel made

Firing

Break: 5YR4/4 Core: 10R5/8

Vessel Images 1

Elephantine 28701Ec-K046

Cooking pot

Aswan

540-565 CE

Byzantine

Break Photos 0

Thin Section Photos 4

Elephantine 28701Ec-K046

Cooking pot

Aswan

540-565 CE

Byzantine

Elephantine 28701Ec-K046

Cooking pot

Aswan

540-565 CE

Byzantine

Elephantine 28701Ec-K046

Cooking pot

Aswan

540-565 CE

Byzantine

Elephantine 28701Ec-K046

Cooking pot

Aswan

540-565 CE

Byzantine

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Associated Ware/Ware Family/Style

Byzantine-early Islamic Nile Silt Cooking ware

5th century - 8th century CE

Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Tulunid

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Associated Petrofabric

Egypt/Nile Clay

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Bibliography

Denise Katzjäger. "Spätantike Alltagskultur auf Elephantine, Oberägypten.Typochronologie, Funktion und kulturelle Diversität der keramischen Funde aus den Wohnhäusern um den Chnumtempel", Dr. Phil., Department for Classical Archaeology, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, 2017
Peloschek, Lisa. "Cultural Transfers in Aswan (Upper Egypt). Petrographic Evidence for Ceramic Production and Exchange from the Ptolemaic to the Late Antique Period.", PhD, Archaeometry, University of Vienna, 2015

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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