Jerash Bowls
Jordan/Northern Highlands/Jerash
6th-7th cent. CE
Byzantine
General Information
Fine table ware, local fabric, wheel thrown. The Jerash Bowls were first identified at Jerash during the Yale excavations from the late 1920s to the early 1930s. As well as the Jerash Red Slip ware, the assemblage is composed by bowls and plates shaping like the African Red Slip types. One of the peculiarity of this ceramic group is the painted decoration mainly consisting of geometrical pattern, floral pattern, stylized animal or human figures sometimes with Greek inscriptions. This production is made in Jerash starting from the first half of the 6th cent until, at least, the mid-late 7th cent. Further information about the typology, the decoration and the chronology are in Watson 1989, Watson 1992; Uscatescu 1995 and Uscatescu 2019.
The ware colour ranging from the orange shades to dark red (Muns: 2.5 YR 6/8-7.5R 5/6, 5/6).The fabric texture is fine even if granular. The inclusions are tiny, few of lime. Sometimes the vessels shows a dark grey core.
