Israel/Shephelah
Middle Hellenistic
Wall fall in the room
PLATS, R-PL1A
Description: Shallow saucer with a central depression. Generally a raised ridge surrounds it. Ware: from pink) to light red . A dull red matte slip covers the vessel. early.
Occurrence: Maresha, 284-114 BCE (Levine 1999:45, Pl. 9, No. 47). Samaria, context dated late in the second century BCE (Crowfoot, Crowfoot and Kenyon 1957:261, fig. 54:5-·6). Jerusalem, Jewish Quarter, second century BCE (Geva 2003: 144-145, fig. 5.3:30, Type FP3). Tel Dor type BL4b, typical of the second century BCE (Guz-Zilberstein 1995:291-292, photos 6.7-6.8, 349, fig. 6.3:6-16; references to Tel Michal, and Ashdod there). Tel Iztaba, 1D7 BCE (Sandhaus in press).
Debora Sandhaus.2011.The Pottery from Khirbet er-Rasm: The Typology of the Pottery from the Hellenistic, Roman and Later Periods.pp:121-123
Courtesy of Prof. Avraham Faust and Prof. Adi Erlich/Kh. er-Rasm Expedition