Israel/Shephelah
Early Hellenistic, Middle H...
Subterranean Complex 169
c. 3rd c. BCE - 2nd c. CE
Hellenistic/Ptolemaic, Roman
Two broad rectangular handles, decorated with raised circles. Wheel-ridging on interior upper wall. Soot on bottom.
...restored from several fragments, has a straight high neck and a flanged rim (rim and neck fragments of a second pot were also retrieved). Unusual are the high and broad rectangular handles, flat on top and decorated; they are placed in the middle of the upper body. The capacious body has its maximum width at half-height marked by a carination.