Hellenistic Central Coastal Cooking Ware
Israel/Central Coastal Plain
3rd - 2nd centuries BCE
Hellenistic
General Information
This ware was first identified in the site of Khirbet er-Rasm, in the Idumean Shephelah in the late 2nd century BCE context. The ware is characterized by a hard red well-fired clay with visible white grits. The texture of the ware feels sandy.
Petrographic testing corroborates the association of this ware with the Sharon coast. The composition of Hamra soils and the coastal sand is characteristic of the area between Ashdod in the south and the Carmel coast in the north.
The range of forms include mostly cooking pots with long necks and a variety of rims. The walls are relatively thick and on the exterior, some are plain and others display a wheel-ribbing, a characteristic associated in general with Phoenician cooking wares (Berlin 2015:636).
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