Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (5.1993(1994))

The assemblage included new fragments of plates with
bowl-like depressions, made of Nile silt7 Most of the new finds
come from D18 and only a few from D19, and they were recorded
in different layers of the debris filling these rooms. The group is
differentiated not just in terms of form and clay structure. There
were also different techniques of producing the small bowls which
were subsequently attached to the bottom of the plate in places
where round holes had been pierced.
Two almost complete plates of this type were discovered in
the bottom layers of the debris filling D22. One of these is covered
with red slip and is devoid of painted decoration; at the bottom of
each small bowl there are darker traces of some kind of oily
substance. The other example (Fig. 13) is totally covered with a
white matt slip serving as ground for dots and lines painted on it
in red-brown.
It is still difficult to establish an exact chronology for the
deposits and formal categories discussed here. The majority of the
tableware and storage pottery found in the fill of rooms of I.DB
and II.DB should be dated to the 9^-11^ centuries, taking also
into consideration the comparative material from Fustat. This
dating is confirmed by fragments of three glazed bowls represent-
ing different kinds of Fayumi Ware and a lamp (Fig. 13) wholly
covered with a homogeneous green glaze,$ all of which should be
dated to the period between the second half of the 9^ and the

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Mentioned earlier in T. Gorecki, PAM IV, fig.7.
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W. Kubiak, Medieval Ceramic Oil Lamps from Fustat, Ars Orientalis
VIII, 1970, Type V (10-11 c.), p.6f.

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