Israel/Shephelah
Late Hellenistic
Fill and occupational debris
5th-2nd c. BCE
Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic
CLOSED COOKING POTS, R-CP7C
Description: Cooking pots characterized by a globular or squat body, a neck varying in height and a triangular rim, like R-CP7A, but CP7C has a shorter concave neck still tall, and a triangular rim. Large globular ribbed cooking pot with short concave neck, thickened rim with triangular or rounded profile. Cooking pots with triangular rim belong to a long tradition of local vessels, from Canaanite-Israelite cooking pots and extending throughout the Byzantine period .
Occurrence: Maresha, second century BCE (Levine 2003: similar to fig. 6.6:74). Tel Gezer, late second century BCE (Gitin 1990: pI.40:26). Tel Dor, found in third, second and first half of first century BCE contexts (Guz-Zilberstein 1995:299, pI.2.19). Jericho, late second century BCE-15 BCE (Bar-Nathan 2002: pI.11: 124, 128, type J-CPI).
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.
Acknowledgments to: prof .Avraham Faust and Prof Adi Erlich