IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72636 accession number: C.18.1-1948 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 21 September 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragments with reddish body tones, with and without cream slips, all lightly incised on the interior under a yellow glaze and some enhanced with green and brown pigments A: Shape: Part of base, foot ring, and lower body of a large carinated bowl with almost straight sides Interior: yellow glaze over a cream slip, a double incised line circling the base enclosing lightly incised curved spokes radiating from a central point bearing a dot of dark brown pigment, the lower body decorated with similar lines radiating upwards from the base and curving over in lobes, enhanced with painted lines of green and dark brown pigments Exterior: thin layer of pinkish slip, undecorated, with two splashes of yellow glaze B: Shape: fragment of vessel wall, curving outward at upper edge, possibly upper body with part of rim Interior: yellow glaze over cream slip, with lightly incised double lines drawn vertically and curving slightly, enhanced with painted lines of green and dark brown pigments normally corresponding to the incised lines Exterior: undecorated, thin layer of pinkish slip in places, one area of splashed yellow glaze. C: Shape: fragment of rim and upper body of a thin-walled carinated vessel Interior: yellow glaze over cream slip, a band of very lightly incised lines decorating the surface, enhanced with painted vertical lines of green and dark brown pigment Exterior: Lightly coated in a pinkish slip, undecorated D: Shape: thin-walled rim fragment Interior: yellow glaze over cream slip, with double-incised lines, some straight and some scrolling, enhanced with painted lines of green and brown pigment Exterior: the rim edge glazed in brown above a slight collar, otherwise unglazed and undecorated, covered in a pinkish slip E: Shape: part of base and lower body of a carinated, straight-sided cup standing on a flared foot ring Interior: a decoration of curved spokes radiating from the centre of the base is enclosed by an incised double line, above which is visible the bottom part of an indistinct group of incised abstract designs separated by groups of vertical lines at intervals Exterior: over a pinkish slip, a yellow glaze, hardly apparent above the carination, some splashes under the foot ring, undecorated F: Shape: part of rim and upper body of a straight sided vessel Interior: yellow glaze over a cream slip, undecorated except for a vertical double line incised at one edge, enhanced by a parallel painted line of brown pigment, the rim edged in the same brown pigment Exterior: covered in a pinkish slip and unglazed apart from where yellow glaze has run over from the interior. G: Shape: part of rim and upper body of a carinated vessel with gently rounded walls Interior: yellow glaze over a cream slip, lightly incised with a double line radiating at an angle from the base, along with other vertical double line, enhanced with painted lines of green pigment over the sgrafitto, the triangular space between the lines filled with lightly incised scrolling lines Exterior: covered with a pinkish slip, unglazed except for below the carination and at the rim H: Shape: base and lower body of a rounded bowl, standing on a short foot ring Interior: Lightly incised scrolling double lines form an irregular abstract design, over a ground of densely scribbled spirals Exterior: yellow glaze over a cream slip, undecorated object type: Eight earthenware fragments, with and without cream slips, all lightly incised on the interior under a yellow glaze and some enhanced with green and brown pigments title: sherds NOTES ----- type: history note value: From Farouk I University, Alexandria LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72636 TECHNIQUES ---------- Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragments with reddish body tones, with and without cream slips, all lightly incised on the interior under a yellow glaze and some enhanced with green and brown pigments throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1250 - 1299 creation date earliest: 1250 creation date latest: 1299 culture: 13th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Ceramic Evidence for Political Transformations in Early Mamluk Egypt Céramiques médiévales à Alexandrie. Contribution à l’histoire économiques de la ville Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum Archaeological Excavations at Kom-el-Dik. A Preliminary Report on the Medieval Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/C_18_1_1948.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/mid_C_18_1_1948.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/C_18_1_1948.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/preview_C_18_1_1948.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels