Room 31 | Islamic Middle East gallery
Explore artefacts made over a period of more than 1000 years in the heart of the Islamic world.
Galleries : 258 objects
Filter from a water jug
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 12th century (1101 - 1200)
- Associated people
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American Research Center in Egypt (established 1948) (excavator)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, unglazed, with incised decoration
- Dimensions
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6 cm (height)
8.5 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by the American Research Center in Egypt, 1974.
- Accession no.
- EAP.2687
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Further reading
Scanlon, George T., ‘Catalogue of Filters’, Fustāt Expedition Final Report, 2 vols, American Research Center in Egypt Reports, 8 (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, for the American Research Centre in Egypt, 1986), cat. p. 50, E, fig. 157
Glossary
earthenware
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earthenware
Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1000-1200⁰c. The resulting ceramic is non-vitreous and varies in colour from dark red to yellow.
Location
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First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East
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First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East
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