General InformationThis ware is characterized by a fabric similar in appearance to that of the Acre Ware, however it was produced on the Lebanese coast, at the area of Tripoli and north (Stern 2012:38–40, Shapiro 2012:106, 119). To date, it can be said that potters used this ware to produce one type of table amphora. At Acre, vessels of this ware appear in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries CE ceramic assemblages. The table amphorae may have been brought because of their unique contents.

Northern Lebanese Frankish Table Ware has been found at rural sites in western Galilee, Yoqne‘am, Caesarea, and Jaffa and at Kinet, in the Antioch region, however, it remains unclear it these were produced in the same Lebanese-coastal workshop as those found in Acre, as no provenance analysis was conducted (see Stern 2012:39).

Description
Visual examination of the fabric of the vessels of this subgroup shows it to be similar to that of the Acre Ware, with a light brown 7.5 YR 6/4 to reddish-brown 5 YR 5-6/4. Fine sand, lime and other grits and limestone inclusions, some mica. The exterior was treated similarly to the Acre Ware vessels, with a light-colored slip achieved by dipping the vessels in salt water before firing in the kiln (very pale brown 10 YR 7/3 exterior)

'Akko/Acre (Israel/Northern Coastal Plain)