This ware was manufactured in Beirut over several centuries to make various types of deep globular cooking pots and wide, flat-bottomed baking dishes/frying pans. Over the years potters changed rim forms, details of the application of glaze, and wall thickness; these differences can help in dating. These Beirut cooking vessels have been found widely throughout the eastern Mediterranean, including Cyprus (Nicosia, Paphos), along the entirety of the Levantine coast, from Kinet Höyük on the Bay of Iskenderun down to Israel's southern coastal plain, and in the Levantine interior, as far east and south as Amman, Kerak, and Petra (E. Stern 2012, 'Akko I, pp. 42-43).
Beginning in the second half of the 9th or beginning of the ...
The fabric of the 12th c. vessels is fine and fired to a hard, metallic character; that of the 13th c. tends to brown and is coarse and sandy.
Paphos/Nea Paphos (Cyprus/Western South Coast)