Transport Amphora

No slip. Incised gash on the top of 1 handle, intentional? Body wet smoothed in some areas.

Wheelmade. Not well fired; yellow/beige mottling on body, pock-marks on exterior surfaces, tiny pitting. Rough areas left around upper body, just below the carination, and elsewhere. Wide handle attachments with smoothed lower inside surfaces.

Phoenician transport amphora/jar, also known as a torpedo or cylindrical jar/amphora, Gjerstad's Plain White V-VI Ware. Cylindrical torpedo-shaped body which bags out a bit ca. half-way down then tapers to a nipple base, pronounced carinated shoulder/collar extending beyond the line of the body, miniscule vertical rim, just a slightly turned-out ridge; 2 opposing small loop handles, subrectangular in section, from carination to high on the body.

Very coarse orange exterior to the clay, brown interior on the handles and elsewhere where thick, biscuit-like quality, numerous white and grey, some black and a very few red inclusions.