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About Findings Periods The Mandatory Collection of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum
 
Object's Name: Cooking Pot Loop Handle
Period: Fatimid
Material: Pottery
Site: Caesarea
Description: Globular cooking pot made of fine levigated red clay with small white grits. Two triangularly folded handles on the shoulder. The cooking pot is coated on the inside and on the base with tranparent lesd glaze. Ramnants of glazinf appear around the rim. This type of cooking pot appears during the 11th century. It continues to exist in different versions during the 12th-13th centuries.
Bibliography:
Lester, A. Arnon, Y. Polak, R. 1999. The Fatimid Hoard from Caesarea: A Prelimnary Report. in : (ed). Barrucand, M. LEGYPTE FATIMIDE son art et son histioire... Paris, 233-248, Fig. 2.
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