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Abstract

Salvage excavations in the neighborhood of Newe Yaraq, Lod exposed the remains of a Late Roman pottery kiln of the vertical or up-draft type. Seven to eight mud-brick courses of the circular outer wall of the lower chamber (firebox) survived. A round, mud-brick column in its center supported a mud-brick vaulted ceiling that served as the floor of the upper stacking chamber. Associated ceramics, including kiln wasters and slags, were encountered on the fire-chamber’s floor. Most common in the assemblage are sherds belonging to a single type of storage jar, dating to the second–fourth centuries CE. Pottery of the Pottery Neolithic A period (PNA) comprises 390 potsherds, including bowls, basins, kraters/pithoi, holemouth jars and necked jars. Painted and burnished geometrical patterns occur on both open and closed vessels. One base, of a coil-made pedestal vessel, bears a textile impression.

Keywords

Lod Basin, lower Shephelah, coastal plain, Ayyalon streambed, pottery production, technology, praefurnium, Lyddan jars, petrography, textile, flints, animal bones, fauna, economy, roof tile, stone vessel (qalal), Jewish population, Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age I, Middle Bronze Age II, Late Bronze Age II, Iron Age I, Persian period

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