Vessel: Tell el-Kheleifeh 12017

Context Information

Tell el-Kheleifeh

8th-6th c. BCE

Fortified site/citadel

Jordan/Aqaba Highlands

Iron Age IIC/Persian

Room 36

Vessel Details

Cooking pot

FIne textured ferrugenous clay, lightly tempered, average particle size; inclusions: quartz/spar, sand temper, minor shale; color: dark grey exterior (5 YR 4/1), light brown section (5 YR 6/2)

H: 10.5 cm, TH: 1.1 cm, D: 18 cm

Cooking/Food production

Handbuilt on base support, horizontally wiped surfaces

Hand made

Incompletely fired

Vessel Images  4


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