General Information

Sugar pot ware vessels are made of a coarse, sandy fabric, and come in two major shapes, both used in the later stages of sugar production. The first is the lower molasses jar (known as a qadus in Arabic) and the second the upper sugar cone (ubluj in Arabic). Liquid would drain out of the top and into the molasses jar, leaving a cone of crystalline sugar in the upper portion. This ware is generally associated with molasses jars with simple, thickened rims or outward folded rims and omphalos bases, and sugar cones with outward-folded or rounded rims, generally with a single 1-2 cm hole in the bottom. Avissar and Stern (2005: 86, 103) date this ware to the 12th-13th century CE.

Coarse light brown to gray clay with limestone grits and much sand (Avissar and Stern 2005: 86, 103)

Sugar Pots and Molasses Jars of the Crusader Period (Avissar and Stern 2005: 86, 103)

Yesud HaMa'ala (Israel/Hula Valley)