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Vessel: Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/21

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Context Information

Site Name

Caesarea Maritima

Date

c.500 - 600 CE

Site Type

Anchorage

Country/Region

Israel/Central Coastal Plain

Period

Byzantine

Archaeological Context

Anchorage

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Vessel Details

Shape

Transport amphora

Shape Type

Agora M334

Fabric Description

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Functional Category

Transport/Storage

Surface treatment

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Manufacturing Technique

Wheel made

Vessel Images 2

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/21

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

c.500 - 600 CE

Byzantine

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/21

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

c.500 - 600 CE

Byzantine

Break Photos 1

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/21

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

c.500 - 600 CE

Byzantine

Thin Section Photos 10

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Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/21

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

c.500 - 600 CE

Byzantine

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/21

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

c.500 - 600 CE

Byzantine

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/21

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

c.500 - 600 CE

Byzantine

Caesarea Maritima South Bay 16/37-75/21

Transport amphora

Caesarea Maritima

c.500 - 600 CE

Byzantine

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

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Associated Petrofabric

Israel/Central Coastal Plain/red loamy soil/Hamra

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Bibliography

Alexandra Ratzlaff; Ehud Galili; Paula Waiman-Barak; Assaf Yasur-Landau. "The Plurality of Harbors at Caesarea: The Southern Anchorage in Late Antiquity" Journal of Maritime Archaeology 12:2 (2017), 125-146/DOI 10.1007/s11457-017-9173-z , Figure 6.

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

Petrography done by Paula Waiman Barak

Photograph Tanya Sokolskey