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Provenance of local ceramic industry and the characterization of imports: petrography of pottery from medieval Yemen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert B. Mason  and
Edward J. Keall
Robert B. Mason
Affiliation:
West Asian Department, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto. Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada
Edward J. Keall
Affiliation:
West Asian Department, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto. Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada
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Recognition of distinctive ceramics by visual inspection is the norm in surface survey - especially when ceramic types are as varied and colourful as those of Islamic medieval pottery. Here petrographic analysis is used successfully to define the ceramic categories and the contributions of local and imported wares.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 236 , September 1988 , pp. 452 - 463
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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