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Islamic Wares from Ajdabiyah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

J. A. Riley*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton

Abstract

A provisional typology for the Islamic glazed and domestic pottery from the excavations of the Fatimid mosque at Ajdabiyah is presented. The bulk of this pottery is likely to belong to the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D. In addition, attention is drawn to the results of a programme of petrological analysis of the fabrics. Functional and typological variation was found to relate to fabric variation.

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Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 1982

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