A History of Pottery and Potters in Ancient Jerusalem - Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967 - H. J. Franken †

A History of Pottery and Potters in Ancient Jerusalem - Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967 - H. J. Franken †

Pottery from the Middle Bronze Age

A History of Pottery and Potters in Ancient Jerusalem - Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967 - H. J. Franken †

H. J. Franken † [+-]
H. J. Franken, who died in 2005, was Emeritus Professor at the State University Leiden, The Netherlands, and the author of Excavations at Tell Deir 'Alla: The Late Bronze Sanctuary (Louvain, 1992) and of numerous articles on Near Eastern archaeology.

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This chapter is concerned with pottery from the Middle Bronze Age. It describes the total assemblage of this pottery as it was found in the Site A squares. A sketch of complete forms suggests to which forms the classes may belong and further, a survey of the classes and variants is provided as well as a list of the provenance of the illustrated sherds. It further presents a survey of the total amount of sherds found; the cave pottery is compared with the total amount of sherds found elsewhere on the site. This is followed by notes on the construction of this pottery, on the firing temperatures and the influence on the colour of the sherds. The most common ware by far is the dolomite clay already described in Franken and Steiner 1990.

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Franken, H. J.. Pottery from the Middle Bronze Age. A History of Pottery and Potters in Ancient Jerusalem - Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 29-38 Sep 2005. ISBN 9781845535070. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=21697. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.21697. Sep 2005

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