Fadous-Kfarabida, FAD08.285/305.28 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Vessel: Fadous-Kfarabida, FAD08.285/305.28

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Context Information

Site Name

Tell Fadous-Kfarabida

Date

c. 1900-1800 BCE

Site Type

Settlement with cemetery

Country/Region

Lebanon/Northern Coast

Period

Middle Bronze Age I

Archaeological Context

Tomb 402

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Vessel Details

Shape

Bowl, hemispherical

Shape Type

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Fabric Description

Reddish-brown (2.5YR5/6).

Measurements (cms)

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Functional Category

Burial/Grave Gift

Surface treatment

Exterior: reddish- brown (2.5YR5/6 red), smoothed, with wheelmarks still visible inside and out.

Manufacturing Technique

Wheel made

Firing

Well-fired

Vessel Images 1

Fadous-Kfarabida, FAD08.285/305.28

Bowl, hemispherical

Tell Fadous-Kfarabida

c. 1900-1800 BCE

Middle Bronze Age I

Break Photos 0

Thin Section Photos 1

Fadous-Kfarabida, FAD08.285/305.28

Bowl, hemispherical

Tell Fadous-Kfarabida

c. 1900-1800 BCE

Middle Bronze Age I

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Associated Ware/Ware Family/Style

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Associated Petrofabric

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Bibliography

Hermann Genz, Sireen el-Zaatari, Canan Çakirlar, Kamal Badreshany, and Simone Riehl. "A Middle Bronze Age Burial from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, Lebanon" Ägypten und Levante/Egypt and the Levant 20 (2010), 183–205 , Figure 6.1, Page 187, Figure 12, Page 196.

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

Part of the rim broke off in antiquity, soot marks on the break indicate a reuse as a lamp.