Vessel: Tell el-Kheleifeh 781

Context Information

Tell el-Kheleifeh

8th-6th c. BCE

Fortified site/citadel

Jordan/Aqaba Highlands

Iron Age IIC/Persian

Room 18

Vessel Details

Cooking pot

Inclusions: minor ferric oxide and magnetite, quartz; Munsell: light brown exterior ( 5 YR 7/3) and section (5 YR 7/3)

H: 22 cm, TH: 1.1 cm

Cooking/Food production

Reed mat impressions on bottom, interior wiped on diagonal in both directions

Hand made

Mixed oxidation state, fully fired

Vessel Images  5

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Cooking pot
Tell el-Kheleifeh
8th-6th c. BCE
Iron Age IIC/Persian

Cooking pot
Tell el-Kheleifeh
8th-6th c. BCE
Iron Age IIC/Persian

Cooking pot
Tell el-Kheleifeh
8th-6th c. BCE
Iron Age IIC/Persian

Cooking pot
Tell el-Kheleifeh
8th-6th c. BCE
Iron Age IIC/Persian

Break Photos  1


Cooking pot
Tell el-Kheleifeh
8th-6th c. BCE
Iron Age IIC/Persian

Thin Section Photos  0

Associated Ware/Ware Family/Style

12th - 7th centuries BCE

Iron Age

Associated Petrofabric

Associated Kiln/Workshop