Israel/Shephelah
Middle Hellenistic
Ash layer
c. 1400 BCE - 37 BCE
Late Bronze Age III, Iron Age, Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic, Late Hellenistic
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BAG-SHAPED JARS (Type R -SJ2)
Description: Storage jar with pear bag-shaped body, rounded shoulders and two ridged handles attached from shoulder downwards. Its neck is straight or slightly narrowing toward the top and out-folded rim with rounded profile The usual ware is red or reddish-yellow but it also in buff color with many white inclusions.
Occurrence: no similar vessel has been published in Maresha, Sandhaus D.2011.pp:109, appreciate that this type was the most common storage jars in domestic services there. At Tel Dor it is included in Type At Tel Dor it is included in Type SJI b.
Courtesy of Prof. Avraham Faust and Prof. Adi Erlich/Kh. er-Rasm Expedition
Acknowledgments to Prof. Andrea Berlin and Dr. Deborah Sandhaus for their help.