This name describes a very broad ware family that includes the enormous range of plain, non-decorated, non-cooking ceramics produced throughout the southernmost Levant - southern Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan - from the Early Bronze Age through the end of the Iron Age. A wide range of vessels for household use were produced, from small bowls to large storage jars (pithoi).
Vessels have in common an unslipped surface, often wet-smoothed. Manufacture is generally and variously by coil and finished on a slow wheel. A wide range of petro-fabrics are attested, as this ware family was produced over a broad geographic area.
With a few important exceptions, Southern Levantine plain ware vessels were made for local use and were rare...
