2022
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-022-01690-4
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Technological changes in the glazed wares of northern Tunisia in the transition from Fatimid to Zirid rule

Abstract: A representative selection of glazed ceramics recovered from medieval Islamic contexts excavated in the former Roman port of Utica (North Tunisia) has revealed new data about medieval glaze technologies in the central Mediterranean. Strati ed sequences of pottery have established four main phases of occupation which span the mid-10th to the mid-11th centuries. The Utica assemblage demonstrates signi cant changes in the range of glazed wares in the Zirid period with respect to the late Fatimid period: whereas p… Show more

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“…Iron, copper and manganese colorants were used as colourants for the transparent glazes, typical of early Islamic glaze production (Ben Amara et al 2001 ; Pradell and Molera 2020 ; Tite 2011 ). These data are consistent with our current understanding of the production of medieval high-lead glazes in the eastern Mediterranean, and parallel results from roughly contemporary Tunisian assemblages at Utica, Bir Ftouha, Sabra al-Mansuriya and Raqqada (Ben Amara et al 2001 ; Ben Amara et al 2005 ; Salinas et al 2022b , 2020 ). The closest compositional match for the transparent glazes are the polychrome transparent glazes from Sabra al Mansuriya (Capelli et al 2011 ), which are also characterised by a more variable alkali content which does not exceed 4 wt% and by similar levels of PbO between 50% and 60 wt%.…”
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confidence: 87%
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“…Iron, copper and manganese colorants were used as colourants for the transparent glazes, typical of early Islamic glaze production (Ben Amara et al 2001 ; Pradell and Molera 2020 ; Tite 2011 ). These data are consistent with our current understanding of the production of medieval high-lead glazes in the eastern Mediterranean, and parallel results from roughly contemporary Tunisian assemblages at Utica, Bir Ftouha, Sabra al-Mansuriya and Raqqada (Ben Amara et al 2001 ; Ben Amara et al 2005 ; Salinas et al 2022b , 2020 ). The closest compositional match for the transparent glazes are the polychrome transparent glazes from Sabra al Mansuriya (Capelli et al 2011 ), which are also characterised by a more variable alkali content which does not exceed 4 wt% and by similar levels of PbO between 50% and 60 wt%.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 87%
“…Indeed, fabrics of comparable composition and texture to our Fabrics 1, 2 and 3 are found at Raqqada and Sabra al Mansuriyya (Ben Amara et al 2001 ; Ben Amara et al 2005 ; Group 1 in Capelli et al 2011 ). Similar fabrics, which vary from cream/greenish to red in colour, are also found at Utica and Bir Ftouha and linked to the Kairouan production, though a coastal origin is not excluded (Salinas et al 2022b , 2020 ). Testolini (2018:130–135) also reported similar fabrics in her study of early medieval Sicilian ceramic assemblages which she interpreted as imports from North Africa, likely made in different (unidentified) workshops.…”
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confidence: 74%
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