General Information

Workshop X medieval cooking ware is likely a product of the hinterland of Acre, probably in the vicinity of Tel Keisan. Vessels have a hard, fine, generally reddish-brown fabric. Surfaces are smooth and not gritty, though, not appreciable by eye, the paste contains some fine quartz, lime and other (?argillaceous) inclusions. Surfaces are often reduced to a dark grey-black. The ware is usually very thin-walled, similar to Syrian ´brittle ware’(as coined by Dyson 1968; Harper 1980), although Workshop X products are thinner-walled and lighter-weight that the basaltic Syrian cooking wares of the Homs region or those of Apamea and Aleppo. 

Workshop X vessels have a hard, fine, generally reddish-brown fabric. Surfaces are smooth and not gritty, though, not appreciable by eye, the paste contains some fine quartz, lime and other (?argillaceous) inclusions. Surfaces are often reduced to a dark grey-black. Vessels are very thin-walled, although some forms, such as the 'mortar with spout' (which could also be a funnel) can have thicker walls and appear to be denser. 

Paphos/Nea Paphos (Cyprus/Western South Coast)

Beirut (Lebanon/Northern Coast)

Khaldeh (Lebanon/Northern Coast)