General Information

This amphora type was first identified during the work on the finds from the 2010-12 IAA excavations at Yavneh. The amphorae are represented mainly at Yavneh itself, with association of a 7th c. pottery workshop, and in smaller numbers in other nearby sites as well as in two Egyptian sites. The amphorae are made of a coarse, orange or yellowish-brown ware (sometimes fired to yellowish-buff), which—to the naked eye—seems virtually identical to the ware of the LRA 4 and LRA 5/6 jars. This amphora type has a short, vertical neck (ca. 3.5–5 cm) with a slight ridge at its upper third, an everted, hooked rim, two flat/concave-sectioned loop handles from the neck’s base to the shoulder and a ribbed, moderately slanting shoulder. Although no complete or even a partially restorable vessel was found, the shoulder profile of the documented examples and body sherds indicate that these amphorae had a globular, apparently completely-ribbed, round-bottomed body. These amphorae are alien to the Palestinian tradition of storage jars, but are closely related to the contemporary pan-Mediterranean and Black Sea globular amphorae group.

Yavneh (Israel-Palestinian Authority/Southern Coastal Plain)

Yavneh Yam (Israel-Palestinian Authority/Southern Coastal Plain)