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Islamic Pottery

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Daily Life Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy (OIMP 26)
by Tanya Treptow
Archaeologists work with broken fragments to build pictures of life in past societies. In many excavations, the most abundant fragments we work with are broken pieces of ceramic vessels and objects (we call them "sherds"), which we find by the thousands in a typical dig. These sherds can tell us quite remarkable things about the past: when a site was occupied in history, what trade contacts it had, and what kinds of everyday activities people ...
Paperback. Price US$24.95


Cobalt and Lustre: The First Centuries of Islamic Pottery
by Ernst J Grube with contributions by Manijeh Bayani, Derek Kennet, Peter Morgan, Nahla Nassar, Alastair Northedge and Cristina Tonghini
This is the first of a two-volume catalogue of the ceramic holdings in the Khalili Collection - nearly 2,000 objects that represent over a millennium of production from all over the Muslim world. It concentrates on the beauty of the work of the early Muslim potters through a selection of 406 items.

The Collection contains many remarkable objects, including masterpieces with few, if any, parallels. Amongst these is a 9th-century ...
Hardback. Price US$180.00

Sasanian and Islamic Pottery from Ras al-Khaimah
by Derek Kennet with Regina Krahl
This analysis of trade in the Western Indian Ocean between the Sasanian period in the 4th century AD and the present day is based on a classification of ceramics from Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. Many thousands of fragments have been ...
Paperback. Price US$85.00

Zabid Project Pottery Manual 1995
by Christopher Scull and Edward Keall
An excavation project to investigate the pre-Islamic and Islamic ceramics from the Zabid area of North Yemen. Seven excavations were carried out in urban contexts to recover a ceramic sequence. The finds range in date from c. 1500 BC to the present day, ...
Paperback. Price US$77.50

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