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Site: Aleppo

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Aleppo

Country/region:

Syria/Homs Desert

Alternate names & spellings:

Beroa, Beroea, Beroia, Berrhoia, Berya, Chalybon, Halab

Coordinates (N,E):

36.19936 , 37.16293

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk

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Related Images

Aleppo, towers along the citadel wall (photograph by David Hanlon, provided by Michael Fuller)

Aleppo, Citadel Curtain wall (photograph by David Hanlon, provided by Michael Fuller)

Vessels 13

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AL. 2188-1

Cooking pot

Aleppo

mid-8th - 10th centuries CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid

AL. 4068-1/ BW 12

Cooking pot

Aleppo

6th - mid-7th centuries CE

Byzantine

Aleppo, Reg no. 5

Bowl

Aleppo

1300 - 1400

Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk

Aleppo, cat reg. 4a

Bowl

Aleppo

1300 - 1400

Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 3

AL. 4068-1/ BW 12 TS
AL. 4068-1/ BW 12
Aleppo

6th - mid-7th centuries CE

Byzantine

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Polarized Light?
XPL

AL. 7021- 1/ BW 10 TS
AL. 7021- 1/ BW 10
Aleppo

8th - 10th centuries CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid

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Polarized Light?
XPL

AL. 3035-1/ BW 13 TS
AL. 3035-1/ BW 13
Aleppo

8th - 10th centuries CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid

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Polarized Light?
XPL

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

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Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Syrian Brittle Ware of the Roman-Byzantine period

1st-7th c. CE

Roman, Byzantine

Syro-Anatolian Brittle Ware of the early-middle Islamic era

7th - 14th c. CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid, Early Medieval/Middle Islamic, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk

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