Israel/Shephelah
Late Hellenistic
Occupational debris
5th-2nd c. BCE
Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic
CLOSED COOKING POTS, R-CP7A
Description: Cooking pots characterized by a globular or t body, a neck varying in height and a triangular rim, more or less pronounced.Type. R-CP7 A, is characterized by a simple or triangular rim and tall everted neck, medium-sized (average high: 20 cm") with bi-conical, um-ribbed body, vertical, tall, slightly with slightly everted neck, convex bottom, and a simple triangular or rounded rim. Two ribbed strap handles are attached from from rim to shoulder Occurrence: Maresha, second century BCE (Levine 2003: fig. 6.6:72). Tel Gezer, Stratum III, late third-early second centuries BCE (Gitin 1990: pI33:21), Stratum md IIB mid-second century BCE (Gitin 1990: pI.37: 18). in Beth-Zur, Stratum I and Stratum II, second-first century BCE BCE (Lapp and Lapp 1968: figs. 24:1-2; 26:8; 27:6-7), Tell el-Ful, Stratum VIA and Stratum VIB, 175-100 BCE (Lapp 1981:] 04, pI.79: I). Jerusalem, Jewish Quarter, Stratum 4, area W, late second century BCE; it is particularly characteristic of the early first century BCE (Geva 2003: 135, pis. 5.1:4,29; 5.3: 11-12; 5.4: 10,31-32, type CP8a). Tel Iztaba, 107 BCE (Sandhaus forthcoming).Tel Anafa, HELL 2C, 98-75 BCE (Berlin 1997a:90-91, pI.24:207-209).
from-Debora Sandhaus.2011.The Pottery from Khirbet er-Rasm: The Typology of the Pottery from the Hellenistic, Roman and Later Periods.pp:113, 115-116
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.