middle of the ll^1 century.^ A similar date is provided by two
fragments of Upper Egyptian products (Adams class C22) with a
simple painted brown-and-red-on-white-slip decoration
The ceramic deposit from room 21 should belong to the
initial phase of this period or even to the mid 9tn century.
9 There is a certain discrepancy in the dating of this type of pottery. The
earliest dating to the 8^ century has been put forward by J. Engemann, Das
Ende der Wallfahrten nach Abu Mina und die Datierung fruher islamischer
glasierter Keramik in Agypten, JbAC 32, 1989, p. 166. A much later dating in
the lO^-early ll^1 century has been adopted by H. Philon, Early Islamic
Ceramics Ninth to Late Twelfth Centuries, Athens 1979, fig. 73, 96, 97 and pl.
IIIA, p.36.
W.Y. Adams, Ceramic Industries of Medieval Nubia, Lexington 1986,
p. 117, fig. 27.
fragments of Upper Egyptian products (Adams class C22) with a
simple painted brown-and-red-on-white-slip decoration
The ceramic deposit from room 21 should belong to the
initial phase of this period or even to the mid 9tn century.
9 There is a certain discrepancy in the dating of this type of pottery. The
earliest dating to the 8^ century has been put forward by J. Engemann, Das
Ende der Wallfahrten nach Abu Mina und die Datierung fruher islamischer
glasierter Keramik in Agypten, JbAC 32, 1989, p. 166. A much later dating in
the lO^-early ll^1 century has been adopted by H. Philon, Early Islamic
Ceramics Ninth to Late Twelfth Centuries, Athens 1979, fig. 73, 96, 97 and pl.
IIIA, p.36.
W.Y. Adams, Ceramic Industries of Medieval Nubia, Lexington 1986,
p. 117, fig. 27.