Vessels of this ware family were made across northern Israel beginning in the late 13th c. CE. Forms include deep globular cooking pots and wide, flat-bottomed baking dishes/frying pans, each with two distinctive rim forms. The first type of cooking pots have an everted, almost-ledge rim with no neck; the second have a similar everted, almost-ledge rim with a short neck. The baking dishes/frying pans have an outturned or "gutter" rim, grooved so as to receive a lid. They carry a transparent lead glaze that fired yellowish, yellow-brown, greenish brown, or brown, generally even and well melted; the glaze facilitated cleaning the vessel in places where food might stick (Avissar and Stern 2005, pp. 92-94; Stern, Edna J. 2014, Kh. Din'ila...
Both the baking dishes and cooking pots can be divided into two main types according to fabric. For both shapes, the first type has thick walls, a slightly greasy, light brown fabric and a thick, mostly glossy glaze, usually in a mustard-yellow shade with some brown specks. The second type of cooking pot appears in different fabrics, apparently reflecting different production centers; most examples differ from the first type in that they are coarser and darker in color. In contrast, the fa...
Khirbet Din'ila (Israel/Galilee)