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Vessel: Gadara_G15.NW.21/6/1.2

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Context Information

Site Name

Umm Qays, Gadara

Date

early 6th-early 7th century CE

Site Type

Settlement

Country/Region

Jordan/Northern Highlands

Period

Late Byzantine

Archaeological Context

Surface collection from the...

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Vessel Details

Shape

Cooking pot

Shape Type

Closed

Fabric Description

Yellowish brown to red...

Functional Category

Cooking/Food production

Surface treatment

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Manufacturing Technique

Wheel made

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Gadara_G15.NW.21/6/1.2

Cooking pot

Umm Qays

early 6th-early 7th century CE

Late Byzantine

Break Photos 0

Thin Section Photos 0

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Associated Ware/Ware Family/Style

Jerash Byzantine-early Islamic Orange-Red Ware

6th-8th c. CE

Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid

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Associated Petrofabric

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Bibliography

Günther Schorner, Nora Voss. "Cooking ware from Northern Jordan: preliminary report on the pottery" Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 30 (2021), 561-579 , Figure 6, Number A14.R4.G, Page 572.

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

A strongly thickened, outwardly turned rim with a distinctive groove on the top. The massive handle is mounted almost horizontally on the rim. The short neck continues without a shoulder into the roun