Edomite pottery

Edomite pottery is the name given to several ware types found in archaeological sites in southern Jordan and the Negev dated to the 7th and 6th centuries BCE. It is attributed to the Biblical people of the Edomites. It consists of several ware types, of which the most representative ones are the plain wares, usually kraters and bowls with a denticulated fringe applied around the vessel; bowls with red and black-painted geometric decorations; cooking-pots with a stepped-rim; and vessels, mainly carinated bowls, influenced by “Assyrian ware” pottery. [M.F. Oakeshott, 'The Edomite Pottery', in J.F.A. Sawyer & D.J.A. Clines (eds.) "Midian, Moab and Edom: The History and Archaeology of Late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and North-West Arabia", JSOT Supplement 24, Sheffield, JSOT Press, 1983, 53-63; E. Mazar, 'Edomite Pottery at the End of the Iron Age', "Israel Exploration Journal" 35 (1985): 253-269; J.M. Tebes, [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00416.x?journal%20Code=hico%20 Assyrians, Judaeans, Pastoral Groups, and the Trade Patterns in the Late Iron Age Negev] , "History Compass" 5-2 (2007).] It was first identified by archaeologist Nelson Glueck in the 1930s-1940s. [N. Glueck, "Explorations in Eastern Palestine II". AASOR 15. New Haven: ASOR, 1935, 123-137.]

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