Umm al-Walīd | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: Umm al-Walīd

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Umm al-Walīd

Country/region:

Jordan/Central Highlands

Alternate names & spellings:

Um al-Walid, Um Al Walid, Um el-Walid, Umm al-Walid, Umm el-Walid, Umm el-Walīd

Coordinates (N,E):

31.6441741 , 35.8838478

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid

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Site Description

Umm al-Walīd is a site located to the southeast of Madaba. It has a long occupational history, spanning the Nabataean period into the Middle Islamic period, although it is best known for its Umayyad period occupation (King 1985).

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Related Images

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Vessels 1

Umm al-Walīd Walmsley 2022 Fig. 1.12

Casserole, angled rim

Umm al-Walīd

749 CE

Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 0

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Site/Project URLs
Database Links

OpenStreetMaps (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/798866297)

Pleiades (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697760)

Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Transjordan Highland Plain Ware

4th - 9th c. CE

Middle-Late Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid

Associated Petro-fabrics

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Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

King, Geoffrey. "A Survey of the Southern Ghawr, the Wadi 'Araba and Western Trans-Jordan, 1981-2" Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 15 (1985), 41-47 , Page 45.

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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