Phoenician Monochrome Ware | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Ware/Ware Family: Phoenician Monochrome Ware

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Name, Origin, Date

Name:

Phoenician Monochrome ...

Country/Region:

Lebanon/Southern Coast...

Date BCE/CE:

c. 1350-1100 BCE

Period:

Late Bronze Age, Iron ...

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General Information

Phoenician Monochrome ware is typical of the coastal ceramic production in the Late Bronze and early Iron Age. Vessels are decorated in red, often in enclosed band configurations. PXRF analysis has shown that the red pigment derives from iron oxides (Shoval and Gilboa 2016). Potters used this ware only for containers: jars, jugs and flasks.

Petrographic analysis has shown that known Phoenician centers such as Achziv, Keisan and Dor both produced and imported vessels of this ware.

The small lentoid decorated flasks of Phoenician Monochrome ware were evidently popular in Phoenicia and beyond during the Late and Early Iron Ages. Residue analysis of many has shown that they contained cinnamon (Namdar et al. 2013; Gilboa and Na...

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Related Images

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Vessels 16

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Dor B: G-PL55/3

Flask

Tel Dor

1200 BCE - 1000 BCE

Iron Age I

Dor B: G-PL28/10

Flask

Tel Dor

1200 BCE - 1000 BCE

Iron Age I

K.7.3349 7 66 42

Jug/pitcher

Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

K.7.66 43

Jar

Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

Break Photos 15

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Dor B: G-PL28/10

Flask

Tel Dor

1200 BCE - 1000 BCE

Iron Age I

Dor B: G-PL55/3

Flask

Tel Dor

1200 BCE - 1000 BCE

Iron Age I

K.7.3349 7 66 42

Jug/pitcher

Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

K.7.66 43

Jar

Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

Petrographic Samples 13

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Keisan_1.7
K.7.3349 7 66 42
Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

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Keisan_2.3
K.7.66 43
Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

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Keisan_2.7
K.7.66.47
Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

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Keisan_2.8
K.76.760
Tell Keisan

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Iron Age I

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Description

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Earlier/Alternative Names

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Site Distribution

Israel

'Ein Hagit (Israel/Carmel Mountains)

Tel Dor (Israel/Carmel coastal plain)

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Associated Petrofabrics

Israel/Carmel Coast/calcareous clay/quartz and tuff

Israel/Northern Coastal Plain/calcareous/biogenic sand

Lebanon/Southern Coast/Neogene Marl/Quartz Inclusions and Marine Biogenic Debris

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Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Shoval, S. and Gilboa, A.. "PXRF analysis of pigments in decorations on ceramics in the East Mediterranean: A test-case on Cypro-Geometric and Cypro-Archaic Bichrome ceramics at Tel Dor, Israel" Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 7 (2016), 472-479
Waiman-Barak, Paula; Gilboa, Ayelet. "Maritime Transport Containers: The View from Phoenician Tell Keisan (Israel) in the Early Iron Age" in Maritime Transport Containers in the Bronze–Iron Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature , ed(s). Demesticha, S and Knapp, B.A. Hesperia Uppsala: Åströms förlag, 2016, 169-193
Paula Waiman-Barak "Circulation of Early Iron Age Goods: Phoenician and Egyptian Ceramics in the Early Iron Age-an Optical Mineralogy Perspective (Doctoral dissertation, University of Haifa).", Phd, Archaeology, University of Haifa, 2016
Waiman-Barak, Paula; Gilboa, Ayelet G. "A Petrographic Study of Early Iron Age Containers at Dan" in Dan IV - The Iron Age I Settlement, The Avraham Biran Excavations (1966-1999), ed(s). David Ilan. Jerusalem: The Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology Hebrew Union College, Forthcoming
Gilboa, Ayelet. "The View from the East – Tel Dor and the Earliest Cypro-Geometric Exports to the Levant" in Cyprus: The Historicity of the Geometric Horizon: Proceedings of an Archaeological Workshop, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 11th October 1998, ed(s). Maria Iacovou and Dimitri Michaelides. Nicosia: The Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus, 1999, 119–139

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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