Galilean wheel-made coarse ware is a family of very coarse wares made in several places around the Galilee from the 5th-3rd c. BCE (Persian and early Hellenistic periods). The vessels are all wheel-made, medium to soft, light pinkish brown in color, with some small and medium rounded and angular white, a few small rounded black and medium angular red, and many fine white and small rounded black inclusions, and a light gray core. The defining characteristics of this ware are the wheel-made technique and the added temper, which is usually abundant and large in size. Individual wares in this family can be identified by their different matrix and specific tempers. These likely represent small productions, in various places around the lowe...
The matrix is ferruginous and slightly silty, There are some voids from burnt-out matter indicating the addition of organic materials such as chaff and straw. Also present in varying amounts are bits of chalk, limestone, shells, fossils, terra rossa soil balls, and ferruginous shale, all of which occur along the wadi beds of Galilee and may have been present when the clay was selected. Within the matrix, these tempers are badly sorted and coarse in size, with grains averaging 2.5 mm across...
Galilean Coarse Ware (GCW), Red-Brown Gritty (RBG), Pink-Brown Gritty (PBG)