Jerash Early Islamic Red Painted Orange Ware (JRPOW)
Jordan/Northern Highlands
mid 8th-9th c. CE.
Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid
Jerash Red Painted Ware, Jerash, Square 8 locus 2, Late Antique Jerash Project
Jerash Red Painted Ware, Jerash, Square 8 locus 2, Late Antique Jerash Project
Jerash Red Painted Ware, Jerash, Square 8 locus 2, Late Antique Jerash Project
Jerash Red Painted Ware, Jerash, Square 7 locus 1, Late Antique Jerash Project
General Information
Jerash Red Painted Ware (JRPOW )vessels are well attested in contexts dated at least to the mid-8th century and still present in the early Abbasid ones. The RPO ware assemblage mainly consists of jugs, jars, and bowls. In particular the type of bowl with cylindrical body, indistictive rim and flat or curved base is made in Jerash, as proposed by Gawlikowsky, in the South Decumanus kilns in the so-called Umayyad House (Gawlikowsky 1996). It is most likley that the closed shapes are made in Jerash as well, since the fabric looks the same.
Parallels: Pella (Walmsley 1995); Amman Citadel (Almagro, Jiménez and Navarro 2000); Umm al Rasas: Alliata1991; Sanmorì and Pappalardo 1997; Pappalardo 2002); Jabal Harûn: (Holmqvist 2018)
Fabric Colour: Munsell 2.5 YR 7/6; 6/6; 5/6. Inclusions: tiny-small, few, lime; tiny, very few, grits. Technical Feature: Wheelmade.
The fabric shows a reddish orange colour with scattered tiny lime and grits inclusions. Sometimes, the surface is white/buff slipped. The red painted decoration is the distinctive trait mainly consisting of wavy, straight lines, cross hatch, or geometrical patterns. The painted decorations usually cover the body, the upper part of the rim and the handles.
Jerash/Gerasa (Jordan/Northern Highlands)
