Jerash Roman-early Islamic Light brown Handmade Ware
Jordan/Northern Highlands
3th-8th cent CE
Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid
General Information
Jerash Light brown Handmade ware is a finer version of Macellum ware ϑ o (Uscatescu 1996). It was used almost exclusively to make handmade basins of different sizes. These first appear in the 3th-4th cent., increase remarkably in the following centuries, and then decrease in the late 7th-8th centuries CE.
Local fabric. Handmade. The colour ranges from light brown to orange brownish (7.5YR 7/6- 6/6). The inclusions are tiny, very few of grits plus tiny, very few, voids.
Jerash/Gerasa (Jordan/Northern Highlands)
