General Information

Hula Valley Coarse Orange ware was used to manufacture small jars designed to hold liquid commodities. Petrographic results indicate that the ware originated in the west central Hula Valley, just to the east of the Upper Galilee plateau. The ware is currently best known from the excavations at Kedesh, situated in the northeastern corner of the Upper Galilee plateau; other sites at which Coarse Orange ware jars occur are Khirbet esh Shuhara, also on the plateau, and Anafa in the Hula Valley. Distribution of Coarse Orange ware across the site's stratigraphic phases suggests that it was introduced in the Persian period, with manufacture continuing into the early Hellenistic period. 

Hula Valley Coarse Orange Ware is a moderately hard, coarse fabric with frequent medium sized angular white and gray inclusions that are visible in the core rather than the interior and exterior surfaces of sherds. Vessels are consistently fired orange on the surface (5YR 6/6) with a wide gray core (5YR 5/1-2) that often extends to the interior surface of the sherd. 

Qedesh/Kedesh (Israel/Galilee)

Tel Anafa (Israel/Hula Valley)