Israel/Shephelah
Middle Hellenistic
Wall fall in corridor
MARESHA JUGLETS-PERFUME CONTAINERS, R-JT1
Description: Angular pear-shaped body, disc base, handle attached from rim to shoulder, no neck, simple or thickened rim. The containers could be ribbed or plain, with no decoration or covered by reddish-brown slip. The ware tends to be fine, varying from reddish-yellow to white color.
Occurrence: Maresha, cave system dated to the second century BCE (Levine 2003: II 0-112, fig. 6.13: 136), 113/112 BCE (Cloner 1994:270). Discussion: This juglet is an apparently a Maresha product. Kloner (1994:270) claimed that the juglets served for drawing liquids from collecting vats at Maresha, and Levine proposed that it was used for measuring (Levine 1999:78 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:112-113
Thanks to Prof. Andrea Berlin and Dr. Deborah Sandhaus for their help
Courtesy of Prof. Avraham Faust and Prof. Adi Erlich/Kh. er-Rasm Expedition