National Treasures

About Findings Periods The Mandatory Collection of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum
 
Object's Name: Bowl 
Period: Early Islamic
Material: Pottery
Site: Caesarea
Height: 9 cm
Diameter: 29.5 cm
Description: Part of a bowl with slanting walls, splayed rim and a ring-shaped base, made of light orange-colored clay. The bowl is decorated on the inside with stripes in dark green, on a white background. The bowl is ascribed to the Fayyumi group from Egypt dated to the 10th-11th centuries. The bowl was broken during use and repaired by drilling through the sherds and joining with a metal wire.
Bibliography:
Arnon, Yael D. 2008. Caesarea Maritima, the Late Periods (700-1291 CE). Oxford, 42, 232e.

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Bowl  
Photographer :Yolovitch Yael





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