General InformationYellow and Green Gouged Ware is well-defined according to its specific decoration. Produced during the Mamluk period, the precise date for its beginnings has been difficult to secure, whether it is the late thirteenth century CE or the early fourteenth. It was in use until the fifteenth century as attested from bowls that were found with a coin hoard in Safed (Stern 2014:89–91). Of this ware, only glazed bowls were produced. The decoration on the interior consists of incised (sgraffito) designs of deeply gouged wide incisions made with a spatula, combined with incisions made with a fine point. The recurring designs, consisting of straight and wavy or zigzag lines, are usually arranged around the center of the bowl interior in a number of abstract schemes. The bowls are then covered with yellow and green-glaze splashes.
The distribution of this type is mainly at inland sites, both urban and rural, throughout the Levant (modern Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan). Petrographic analysis of one sherd that was found in the from Karak Fortress indicated that this type of bowl was brought to the site from a distant, and indeed this ware was found mostly in the north (the Galilee and the Balqa' and north). Milwright 2003 (pp. 87–88, Map 1, 103–104, Table 1), Avissar and Stern 2005 (pp. 16–18, Type I.1.5.2, Fig. 6:5–7) and Milwright 2008 (pp. 197–200, 307–311, 368–370, Fig. 16) provide further discussion and information.
Description
Yellowish red 5YR5/6; quartz sand; white slip under yellow and green glaze with gouged and incised design on interoir

Khirbet Din'ila (Israel/Galilee)