4. Les mosquées médiévales de Goze et Fäqui Däbbis (Ifāt)

Local Ceramics from the Islamic Trade Center of Harlaa, Eastern Ethiopia: Markers of Chronology and Contacts

“…This was particularly so with decorated rims. As has been noted by other authors (e.g., Poissonnier et al, 2011), decorated rims appear to have had a wide distribution across the Islamic trade networks of the Horn of Africa. Similar styles of decorated rims have been observed on local unglazed ceramics from sites in the Indian Ocean trade networks, including at the Yemeni sites of Zabid (Ciuk & Keall, 1996) and Sharma (Rougeulle 2015, p. 186) in contexts dated to 900-1500 and 900-1300 respectively.…”

“…There are differences with northern Ethiopia. Noteworthy was the almost complete absence of rims from large plates, which have been observed, both archaeologically and ethnographically, as associated with the production of flatbreads such as injera, common in central and northern Ethiopia, and kisra in western Ethiopia and Sudan (e.g., Ahmed et al, 1990, p. 158;de Torres Rodríguez, 2017;Fernández et al, 2017, p. 165-173;González-Ruibal & Falquina, 2017, p. 186-189;Johnston, 1844b, p. 253;Lyons & D'Andrea, 2003;Lyons & Freeman, 2009;Maundu & Imburmi, 2003, p. 28-29;Poissonnier et al, 2011). Instead, the dominance of bowl forms in Harlaa reflects the prevalence of porridge/soup/boiling-based food culture (cf.…”

“…The exception is the ceramic assemblage from the Fäqi Däbbis mosque excavations (Fig. 1), dated to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (Poissonnier et al, 2011).…”

The Sultanates of Medieval Ethiopia

“…Several archeological sites have recently been identified in the territory of the sultanate of Awfāt and are dated to the fourteenth century. 47 These sites are witness to the period of domination of the sultanate of Awfāt. Some archeological data have also been identified along the route between Zaylaʿ and Ifāt, near the present-day Somaliland-Ethiopia border, 48 and in the Harar and Č̣ ärč̣ är 49 region.…”