Israel/Shephelah
Late Hellenistic
Occupational debris
Cooking pot
R-CP7B,mall cooking pot with squat unribbed body, vertical, high, slightly concave neck, simple rim with triangular profile, and convex base. Two ridged handles attached from rim to shoulder
Pale red (lOR6/4; burnt signs
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Cooking/Food production
Plain exterior, smooth when still wet
Wheel made
Hard fire
CLOSED COOKING POTS, R-CP7B
Description: Cooking pots characterized by a globular or squat body, a neck varying in height and a triangular rim, more or less pronounced.CP7B, is like CP7A but of smaller size and it has a marked triangular profile a tall concave neck,
Occurrence: Maresha, second century BCE (Levine 2003: fig. 6.6:72). Tel Gezer, Stratum HB, mid-second century BCE (Gitin 1990: pI.37:13-14). Samaria, a similar pot, Late Hellenistic period (Crowfoot, Crowfoot and Kenyon 1957: fig. 41 :5). Tel Anafa, HELL 2C, 98-75 BCE (Berlin I 997a:90-9I , pI.24:210). ).
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.