al Ma'mum workshop
1200 - 1300
Early Medieval/Middle Islamic
Bowl, deep, Bowl, incurved rim, Cooking pot, Cooking vessel, Cooking ware jar, Jar, Lamp, saucer, and Saucer-lid
Discovered during 1994 while conducting a rescue excavation in the southwest corner of a Medieval suq (market). The name is the pottery workshop is stamped on cookpot handles that were found directly associated with the medium size domed kiln. The pottery workshop and market were violently destroyed in the 13th century.
Workshop disscussed for the first time in a paper entitled "Utilitarian Ceramics from Medieval Tuneinir, Syria" read at the Miami University Art Museum conference on "Utilitarian Ceramics" held on 19 October 2019.
Top plan of Area 6, Square 63 - the al Ma'mum kiln
Pat McWhorter and Bob McWhorter measuring the kiln and associated feature
Cookpot with handle stamped in Arabic "Work of al Ma-mum"
Transcription of Arabic stamp: "Work of al Ma-mum"
https://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/Area6Kiln.html
Workshop disscussed for the first time in a paper entitled "Utilitarian Ceramics from Medieval Tuneinir, Syria" read at the Miami University Art Museum conference on "Utilitarian Ceramics" held on 19 October 2019.
