 IAA Number: 1999-1933
 | 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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