Elephantine 29705Bm-K010 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Vessel: Elephantine 29705Bm-K010

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Context Information

Site Name

Aswan, Elephantine

Date

425-540 CE

Site Type

Town/Village

Country/Region

Egypt/Upper Egypt

Period

Byzantine

Archaeological Context

House K20, west courtyard, phase 6, crushed diorite

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Vessel Details

Shape

Cooking pot

Shape Type

Topf 14.2 (Katzjäger 2017)

Fabric Description

2.5YR4/6

Measurements (cms)

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Functional Category

Cooking/Food production

Surface treatment

dull slip on entire vessel, partially rubbed off

Manufacturing Technique

Wheel made

Firing

Break: 2.5YR5/8 Core: 2.5YR5/6

Vessel Images 1

Elephantine 29705Bm-K010

Cooking pot

Aswan

425-540 CE

Byzantine

Break Photos 0

Thin Section Photos 3

Elephantine 29705Bm-K010

Cooking pot

Aswan

425-540 CE

Byzantine

Elephantine 29705Bm-K010

Cooking pot

Aswan

425-540 CE

Byzantine

Elephantine 29705Bm-K010

Cooking pot

Aswan

425-540 CE

Byzantine

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Associated Ware/Ware Family/Style

Aswan Byzantine-early Islamic Cooking ware

5th century - 8th century CE

Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Tulunid

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Associated Petrofabric

Egypt/Aswan Pink/Kaolinitic and 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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