PERFECTING LOCAL PRODUCTION OF DESERT POTTERY PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF EARLY ISLAMIC WARES

Ceramic petrography was conducted on 23 handmade ceramic fragments recovered from the Early Islamic site at Yotvata (Chapters 23 and 29). Samples include five vessels with red decoration, three cooking pots, one bowl and 14 sherds with fabric imprints, one of them of a cooking pot (Table 24.1). Cera...

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Published inYotvata pp. 281 - 286
Main Authors Waiman-Barak, Paula, Ondricek, Willie, Ayalon, Etan
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Penn State University Press 2023
Pennsylvania State University Press
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Summary:Ceramic petrography was conducted on 23 handmade ceramic fragments recovered from the Early Islamic site at Yotvata (Chapters 23 and 29). Samples include five vessels with red decoration, three cooking pots, one bowl and 14 sherds with fabric imprints, one of them of a cooking pot (Table 24.1). Ceramic petrography is a well-established analytical method for determining the mineralogical composition of clay artifacts, as well as identifying geographical provenance and production techniques (e.g., Whitbread 1989; Day et al. 1999; Goren, Finkelstein and Naʾaman 2004; Quinn 2013; Daszkiewicz 2014). All analyzed vessels were produced from the same petrofabric family, employing different
ISBN:9781646022298
1646022297
DOI:10.1515/9781646022601-027