Sherd

77-18-172.3

From: Jordan | Baq'ah Valley

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

Object Number 77-18-172.3
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Jordan | Baq'ah Valley
Archaeology Area Cave A2
Locus Pail 25
Period Late Bronze I
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ceramic
Description

Buffware base sherd in two pieces due to Xeroradiography testing. Publication says:

"XR and drawing of Late Bronze I Jar (A2.25-5). The thick-section image of the flattened base has completely parallel-to-surface air voids which meet approximately at a right angle with those in the vessel wall. The juncture of the two is the seam of the slab base, also seen in the surface view. The vessel wall void orientations are also parallel-to-surface. Measurement conditions: 60kV, 100 mas, 1.00 sec., 1.20 m. foal distance."

Credit Line Baq'ah Valley (Jordan) Project, Patrick McGovern, 1977
Other Number B77.25-5 - Field No SF

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