The Maallah workshop is indicated by a cooking pots with stamped Arabic inscriptions found at Tuneinir. The full name of the workshop was MaShaAllah which can be thought of in several ways: God has willed it, beautiful, job well done, etc. The cookpots actually bear two stamps. The second stamp reads LaLillah which was a shorted form of La Allah ila Allah = "No God but Allah". These two inscriptions means that the potter was a devote Muslim. The assumption is that the workshop was in Tuneinir as the vessel would have been prone to damage in long distant transport. The stamps were translated and interpreted by Prof. John Shoup of the Anthropology Department at Ifrane University, Morocco.
Workshop disscussed for the f...
The location of this kiln at Tuneinir is unknown. Only 10% of the site has been excavated so I assume it is in an unexcavated corner.
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.