Israel/Shephelah
Herodian, Early Roman
Topsoil mixed with wall fall
5th-2nd c. BCE
Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic
COOKING POTS, R-CP9
Description:The most popular Herodian cooking pot. Large globular cooking pot with thin walls, ribbing, short vertical neck and simple rim with a ,groove on outer side. Two ridged handles attached from rim to shoulder. The type was produced in a reddish-yellow gritty ware and an inner reddish-gray.
Occurrence: Jericho, 31 BCE-48 CE (Bar-Nathan 002: 171, pIs.26:476-479, types J-CP2C1 and J-CP2C2). Masada, last third of first century BCE to first third of second century CE (Bar-Nathan 2006: 154-158, pI.27-28, no .6-25, M-CPIB).
Debora Sandhaus.2011.The Pottery from Khirbet er-Rasm: The Typology of the Pottery from the Hellenistic, Roman and Later Periods.pp:128-129 .
Courtesy of Prof. Avraham Faust and Prof. Adi Erlich/Kh. er-Rasm Expedition