Israel/Shephelah
Late Hellenistic
Wall fall inside installation
CLOSED COOKING POTS, R-CP3
Description: Small globular unribbed cooking pot with convex base, everted neck and simple rim. Two ridged handles are attached from rim to shoulder. Ware: from dark gray (2.5YR 4\1) to reddish-gray (l OR5/ I). cooking pot with convex base, everted neck and simple rim. Two ridged handles are attached from rim to shoulder. Occurrence: Beth-Zur, Stratum II (Lapp and Lapp 1968: fig 24:2) and Stratum I (with a squat body; Lapp and Lapp 1968: fig. 27: 1-7). Samaria, similar but bigger, first half of the second century BCE (Crowfoot, Crowfoot and Kenyon 1957: fig. 41: 1-2). Jericho, standard vessel in Hasmonean 2 contexts, and it still was in use during the Herod 1 period (31-15 BCE) (Bar-Nathan 2002:71-72, pI. 12:145, type J-CP2A). Tel Dor, from the second half of the fourth century BCE to the second century BCE (Guz-Zilberstein 1995: fig. 6.17:2-4, CP I). Tel Anafa, similar but with taller neck, pointed rim, HELL 1 and HELL 2 contexts dated from 250 to 110 BCE (Berlin 1997a: pl. 21: 187-190).
from Debora Sandhaus.2011.The Pottery from Khirbet er-Rasm: The Typology of the Pottery from the Hellenistic, Roman and Later Periods.pp:112-114
Thanks to Prof. Andrea Berlin and Dr. Deborah Sandhouse for help.
Courtesy of Prof. Avraham Faust and Prof. Adi Erlich/Kh. er-Rasm Expedition