Tell Tweini TWE-A-01055-C-010, 019, 025 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Vessel: Tell Tweini TWE-A-01055-C-010, 019, 025

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Context Information

Site Name

Tell Tweini

Date

c. 18th-17th c. BCE

Site Type

Harbor/port city

Country/Region

Syria/Coast/An-Nusayriah Mountains

Period

Middle Bronze Age II

Archaeological Context

Level: 8AB

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Vessel Details

Shape

Closed vessel

Shape Type

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Fabric Description

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Measurements (cms)

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Functional Category

Dining/Drinking/Serving

Surface treatment

Groups of five lines crossing each other. White painted IV-VI cross line style.

Manufacturing Technique

Hand made coil

Firing

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Vessel Images 1

Tell Tweini TWE-A-01055-C-010, 019, 025

Closed vessel

Tell Tweini

c. 18th-17th c. BCE

Middle Bronze Age II

Break Photos 0

Thin Section Photos 0

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Associated Ware/Ware Family/Style

Middle-Late Cypriot White Painted Pendent Line/Cross Line style ware

c. 1750-1300 BCE

Middle Cypriot III, Late Cypriot II A-B

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Associated Petrofabric

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Bibliography

Vilain, Sarah. "The Bronze Age Cypriot Pottery from Tell Tweini Field A" in About Tell Tweini (Syria): Artifacts, Ecofacts and Landscape. Research Results of the Belgian Mission, ed(s). Joachim Bretschneider and Greta Jans. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 281 Leuven: Peeters, 2019, 313-394 , Number 389, Figure 70.
K. Vansteenhuyse. "The ceramic material from Tell Tweini – Field A" in In search of Gibala: an Archaeological and Historical Study based on Eight Seasons of Excavations at Tell Tweini (Syria) in the A and C fields (1999-2007), ed(s). J. Bretschneider and K. Van Lerberghe. Aula Orientalis Supplementa 24 Barcelona: 2008, 103-140 , Page 106, Figure 2:3.
K. Vansteenhuyse. "The ceramic material from Tell Tweini – Field A" in Tell Tweini. Onze campagnes de fouilles syro-belges (1999-2010), ed(s). M. Al-Maqdissi. Documents d’Archéologie Syrienne Damascus: 2010, 95-105 , Illustration 7.11.

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

This material is a product of the Syro-Belgian Tell Tweini Excavation Project, headed by Dr. Al-Maqdissi and Dr. Badawi, of the Syrian Department of Antiquities, and Prof. Dr. Joachim Bretschneider, of Ghent University. The full publication is J. Bretschneider and G. Jans, eds., About Tell Tweini (Syria): Artefacts, Ecofacts and Landscape. Research Results of the Belgian Mission. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 281 (Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2019) [ISBN 978-90-429-3678-2]. We acknowledge the kindness of the editors in sharing images and information.

Photographs were taken by B. Vandermeulen, K. Vansteenhuyse, and H. Hameeuw. Drawings were made under the supervision of K. Vansteenhuyse.