Israel/Shephelah
Byzantine
Topsoil
STORAGE "GAZA" JARS, R-SJ8
Description: Hole-mouth jar with no neck, but with thickened rim and ridged body. The vessel was manufactured in light red ware.
Occurrence: The type found in Kh. er-Rasm was found all over the Mediterranean, from Alexandria, Egypt (Majcherek 1995: 166) through Caesarea, on the Israeli coast (Magness 1995:144;Riley 1975:31, no. 13), to Spain (Keay 1984:121, no. 1) and more. Debora Sandhaus.2011.
The Pottery from Khirbet er-Rasm: The Typology of the Pottery from the Hellenistic, Roman and Later Periods.pp:127-128.
Courtesy of Prof. Avraham Faust and Prof. Adi Erlich/Kh. er-Rasm Expedition