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Khirbet Kerak Archæol.|ˈkɜːbət ˈkɛrək|
Name of a town on the south-west edge of Lake Tiberias in Syria, used attrib. to designate a type of early Bronze Age pottery first found there in the 1940s, which is red and black in colour with highly burnished finish and fluted decorations.
1949W. F. Albright Archaeol. of Palestine iv. 76 The most interesting new pottery of this age is the lustrous red and black burnished ‘Khirbet Kerak’ ware, which first became known at the site which bore this name, ancient Beth-Yerah, at the south-west corner of the Sea of Galilee. 1952V. G. Childe New Light Most Anc. East xi. 219 The pottery includes wheel-made red-slipped and lattice-burnished vases and—but only in the last phase of a long occupation—hand-made particoloured black and red vases of ‘Khirbet Kerak ware’. 1960K. M. Kenyon Archaeol. in Holy Land v. 124 Side by side with the native wares are vessels of Khirbet Kerak ware... This type of pottery is also found in northern Syria. 1968Encycl. Brit. II. 610/2 This Khirbet Kerak ware is characteristically Anatolian, but is distinguished by its ornament of ribs and flutings and of raised geometrical patterns, especially spirals. |