Bowl, Fragment
13th century (made)
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Shallow foot-ring in profile; expanding sides with a slight elbow. Inside the rim, three purple lines. Radiating from the middle, four long lancet-shaped leaves painted blue and outlined in purple. Between them, circles in olive green enclosing a crossed circle in purple, semicircles in blue, and a dab of green.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware with painted decoration |
| Brief description | Buff earthenware covered with a thin opaque white glaze and painted in manganese purple, grey-blue and olive green. 'Atlit ware'. Syrian or Palestinian, 13th century. Found at Port St. Simeon (Port Saint Symeon). |
| Physical description | Shallow foot-ring in profile; expanding sides with a slight elbow. Inside the rim, three purple lines. Radiating from the middle, four long lancet-shaped leaves painted blue and outlined in purple. Between them, circles in olive green enclosing a crossed circle in purple, semicircles in blue, and a dab of green. |
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| Credit line | Given on behalf of the Archaeological Expedition to North Syria, by Sir Leonard Woolley. |
| Production | Found at Port St. Simeon, near Antioch in Syria. |
| Bibliographic reference | Lane, Arthur, 'Medieval finds from Al Mina', Archaeologia, LXXXVII (1938) |
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| Accession number | C.291-1937 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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