Vessel: Tell el-Kheleifeh 985

Context Information

Tell el-Kheleifeh

8th-6th c. BCE

Fortified site/citadel

Jordan/Aqaba Highlands

Iron Age IIC/Persian

Unknown

Vessel Details

Cup, carinated

Fine textured calcareous clay; lightly tempered (10-20%); fine particle size (<1.00 mm); inclusions: qtz/spar, lime, fine fibrous organic burnout, minor iron oxide; light green exterior (5 Y 8/2), light brown section (10 YR 7/3)

H: 4.7 cm, TH: 0.50 cm, D: ~ 11 cm

Dining/Drinking/Serving

Indented circumfrential groove between body and lip.

Wheel made

Incompletely fired

Vessel Images  4


Cup, carinated
Tell el-Kheleifeh
8th-6th c. BCE
Iron Age IIC/Persian

Cup, carinated
Tell el-Kheleifeh
8th-6th c. BCE
Iron Age IIC/Persian

Cup, carinated
Tell el-Kheleifeh
8th-6th c. BCE
Iron Age IIC/Persian

Cup, carinated
Tell el-Kheleifeh
8th-6th c. BCE
Iron Age IIC/Persian

Break Photos  1


Cup, carinated
Tell el-Kheleifeh
8th-6th c. BCE
Iron Age IIC/Persian

Thin Section Photos  0

Associated Ware/Ware Family/Style

3200-c. 550 BCE

Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age

Associated Petrofabric

Associated Kiln/Workshop