Macroscopic: Even break, hard fabric, surfaces defined by white slip, orange-reddish colour of fabric with fine black inclusions dominating.
Petrographic: Compositionally quite similar to Aswan Pink/Kaolinitic/Silt including quartz, shale, K-feldspars, plagioclase, sporadically basalts, microcline, augite, hornblende and few micas as most diagnostic paste constituents. Notable is the high amount of rounded to sub-rounded iron-rich “opaque” inclusions that can be identified as iron ore fragments. The clay paste had been named Petrofabric “ASW-PC_03” by Peloschek 2015, 104 and exclusively appears with the so-called thin-walled white-slipped bowls of the late antique period on Elephantine Island (compare Katzjäger 2014, 599). Iron-ore deposits co-occur in the Aswan region north and northeast of the modern city. A local or regional provenance can be supposed.
5th century - 8th century CE
Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid/Tulunid
