Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (17.2005(2007))

NAQLUN

EGYPT

12th century.24 Similar vessels classified as
Gempeler type K357 are dated on Ele-
phantine in the 6th/7th century.25 Our pot
is thus likely to be of 9th century date.
Cooking pot Nd.05.157 is a thin-walled
vessel of Nile silt, featuring a wide flaring
rim (Dia. 20.0 cm) and steeply sloping
shoulders. The body profile resembles
Gempeler type K.330 of indeterminate
date.26 Cooking pot Nd.05.158 is of Nile
silt, big and thin-walled, with flaring rim
(Dia. 26.0 cm), deeply indented and with
carinated wall.
Fragmentary qadus Nd.05.l44, is of
Nile silt and features a short wide neck. It
resembles form S.23, dated by Gempeler

to the 5th-7th centuries.2 A similar
form, although with slightly wider and
weakly profiled rim, is presented by the
qawadis from Tod, where they are dated to
750-900.28
The pottery from room G.8a represents a
fairly narrow repertoire of shapes, all of
them originating from the 9th-10th
centuries. The Fustat finds alone suggest
a chronological horizon extending into the
early 11th century, but all things con-
sidered, this date appears to be too late for
the pottery assemblage in question. Thus, it
should be assumed, based on the pottery,
that room G.8a was used definitely in the
9th and 10th centuries.

26 Gempeler, op. cit., 158, PI. 92.2.
27 Gempeler, op. cit., 208, PI. 133.6.
28 Lecuyot, Pierrat-Bonnefois, op. cit., 168.

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