General Information

This ware represents a small scale production of cooking vessels that were used mainly on the southern Carmel slope. The production of the ware continued the common technique for cooking vessels from the Bronze Age and The Iron Age in most of the Southern Levant. Another ware of the Hellenistic period that applied the same technique is the 
 Golan crystal cooking ware, produced and used in different geographical area.  

Dark clay with dark grey core and diffused orange to dark brown margins. Large and angular calcite and quartz inclusions (up to 2.5mm in size).

Petrography: This ware is made of about 60% clay with low optical activity, containing about 5% angular quartz particles. Inclusions consist of moderate sorted sub-angular sand quartz and non-sorted angular limestone inclusions, there are rare particles of feldspars and dolomite (less than 1%). Voids are irregular and contain about 10% of the slide. The source of the clay derive from Terra-rosa soil that can be found on the Carmel or driven from the Galilee to the northern coastal plain.  

Ramat HaNadiv, Horvat 'Eleq (Israel/Carmel Mountains)