Israel/Shephelah
Late Hellenistic
Wall fall inside installation
CLOSED COOKING POTS, R-CP4
Description: Large cooking pot with sack-shaped unribbed body, ribbed on shoulder, convex bottom, out-flaring neck, sharply incurved rim. The vessels were manufactured in a gritty and coarse weak red ware. Occurrence: Maresha, the type is dated on the basis of parallels to "no earlier than the second half of the second century BCE" (Levine 2003 :94, fig. 6.6:70-71). Tel Gezer, Stratum IIB late second century BCE (Gitin 1990: pI. 40:26, type 2390). Jerusalem, Jewish Quarter, Stratum 4 in area W and Stratum 5-6 in area X2, both dated to the second half of the second---early first centuries BCE (Geva 2003: pI5.1:27, pI5.10:20). Occurrence mainly in southern sites of Israel
From-Debora Sandhaus.2011.The Pottery from Khirbet er-Rasm: The Typology of the Pottery from the Hellenistic, Roman and Later Periods.pp:113-114
Thanks to Prof. Andrea Berlin and Dr. Deborah Sandhouse for help.
Courtesy of Prof. Avraham Faust and Prof. Adi Erlich/Kh. er-Rasm Expedition