Location: Southwest of the monastery, roughly "200 meters from the Unas Valley Temple" (Ghaly 1992: 161)
Typology: The workshop produced tablewares, including plates and shallow bowls; cooking pots; painted water jugs, featuring geometric and floral motifs; thick basins; and probably Late Roman 1 amphoras (Ghaly 1992: 165-168).
Number of kilns: 6
Description of facilities: Six kilns have been found at the workshop, though it is unclear if they are contemporaneous or not (Kiln #s 114, 116, 117, 118, 121, 126).
Kiln 114: the floor was dug into the ground, and walls were built from 'half bricks' but did not wrap around the entire kiln--the east side was open, presumably for loading fuel (Ghaly 1992: 161).
Kiln 116: constructed with three round walls roughly 1.2 m in diamter, with no evidence for "distinction between the fuel room and the firing chamber" (ibid.). The space between the second and third walls was filled with sand. There were two openings, one in the east and one in the west.
Kiln 117: this kiln a "kind of hole dug in the ground, but consolidated with mudbrick" (Ghaly 1992: 163). The structure was 1 m in diameter, and potentially used to create lime.
Kiln 118: 1.2 m wide and constructed of bricks, this kiln is not described in detail by the author but seems to have been used as a refuse pit after it went out of use.
Kiln 121: was built in an abandoned mudbrick room in which what had once been the door was repurposed to form the access hole to stoke the fuel chamber. The firing floor had many perforations in it, which were created by using the necks of vessels. In addition to these holes, trapezoidal shapes 'flues' (0.12 x 0.27 m at the base and 0.15 x 0.25 m at the top) allowed more hot air to travel between the fuel chamber and the firing room
Local fabric: alluvial clay, commonly known as Nile Silt, tempered with straw.