From the 4th-2nd centuries BCE potters along the southern Phoenician coast, from Tyre in the north down to the Sharon plain in the south, produced vessels for individual table service - mostly small saucers and bowls - in this ware. The fabric is rather rough and granular, ranging in color from pale pink to reddish brown (5YR 5/4–5YR 7/4), with fine lime and gray inclusions, and usually fully fired. Vessels carry a thin, matte slip, fired variously from dark reddish brown to light orange, covering the entire interior and the upper exterior walls ("semi-slipped"), with an uneven, sometimes drippy edge. Petrographic analysis of samples from Tel Kedesh conform with soils from Rosh Ha-Niqra in the north to the Carmel range around &l...
Fabric is fairly soft and granular (sandy), moderately well levigated with occasional small to medium rounded white inclusions and voids. Fired a pale pink brown color throughout (5YR 6/8-7/5YR 8/3). Vessels are coated on the interior and upper portion of the exterior with a matte orange red slip (10R 4/6-2.5YR 5/8) that often drips down the exterior wall that is occasionally misfired to black. The clay has medium pores, moderately sorted, very coarse angular sand. Made of variet...
'Akko, Harbor (Israel/Northern Coastal Plain)
'Akko/Acre (Israel/Northern Coastal Plain)