1. Debora Sandhaus. "The Typology of the Pottery from the Hellenistic, Roman and Later Periods " in The Excavations of Khirbet er-Rasm, Israel. The changing faces of the countryside , ed(s). Avraham Faust and Adi Erlich. BAR International Series 2187 Oxford: Archeopress, 2011, 105-134 , Figure 2.4.7, Page(s) 112-115.
2. Anat Cohen-Weinberger.. " Petrographic Results" in The Excavations of Khirbet " in in The Excavations of Khirbet er-Rasm, Israel. The changing faces of the countryside , ed(s). ed(s). Avraham Faust and Adi Erlich. Oxford: BAR International Series 2187 2011, 131-134 , Table 2.12, Page 147.

CLOSED COOKING POTS, R-CP6

Description: Large cooking pot with pear-shaped unribbed body, vertical neck, and out-flaring, beveled rim, with a smooth inner groove, maybe to fit a lid. Two ridged strap handles are attached from rim to shoulder. Occurrence: No identical vessel was found, the closest parallels were found in large jugs, which are similar in form, details and ware but differ in having just one handle. Large jugs with pear-shaped body and ring base were found in Maresha. Judean sites of the second century BCE a similar type jug was found, but its body has a piriform shape and base is concave. According to Lapp's typology, their chronological range in the Judean sites is between 175-50 E (Lapp 1961: Type 21.1 :F, G, H; Lapp and Lapp 8:76, fig. 25:5-6). Similar jugs were found in cistern I at Beth-Zur (Lapp and Lapp 1968:75, figs. 25:2,4-6) and were used for drawing water from cisterns or for storage, but not for serving.

Comment: For petrofabricy, Israel/Shephelah, Negev/loess/calcareous clay-calcareous sand was chosen, wich it is very similar to Negev coastal loess. The Negev coastal loess is often referred to as a coastal "loess" though this petrofabric can also be derived from coastal sediments. Goren et al 2004: Loess with coastal Sand; Cohen-Weinberger 2007: Type K: loess with additional quartz calcareous sand; Ben-Shlomo 2006: Type B1: Coastal Loess; Master 2003: Coastal Loess

from-Debora Sandhaus.2011.The Pottery from Khirbet er-Rasm: The Typology of the Pottery from the Hellenistic, Roman and Later Periods.pp:113-115

Courtesy of Prof. Avraham Faust and Prof. Adi Erlich/Kh. er-Rasm Expedition

Acknowledgments to Prof. Andrea Berlin and Dr. Deborah Sandhouse for their help.