Islamic glazed pottery from Adiabene (Iraq, Kurdistan): multianalytical research into its technological development and
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ORIGINAL PAPER
Islamic glazed pottery from Adiabene (Iraq, Kurdistan): multianalytical research into its technological development and provenance Jan Petřík 1
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Karel Nováček 2
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Dalibor Všianský 3 & Ali I. Al-Juboury 4 & Karel Slavíček 5
Received: 3 May 2019 / Accepted: 16 October 2019 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019
Abstract This paper explores the production characteristics and provenance of Islamic glazed pottery in the Adiabene region of northeastern Mesopotamia. Samples cover the entire time span under study, i.e., from the Early to the Late Islamic periods. Analytical techniques such as ceramic petrography, powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray microanalysis were employed to determine compositional (mineralogical and chemical) and technological characteristics. Based on the comparison of ceramic fabrics with up-to-date knowledge of regional geology, local plain pottery, and the published petrography of Mesopotamian ceramics, several provenance groups of glazed pottery (and one group of unglazed pottery) in the sample collection, originating from the Zabs catchment, the middle course of the Tigris (Samarra?) and the middle and lower course of the Tigris (Baghdad and/or Basra?) were defined. Dynamic oscillations in the ratio of regionally produced and imported pottery enable a detailed study of the socio-economic differences between the Early and Middle Islamic periods. Keywords Islamic glazed pottery . Petrofabrics . Glaze composition . Early Islamic period . Provenance . Adiabene
Introduction In recent years, archaeological research into Islamic-period pottery has substantially widened its perspective, embracing the regional context of both production and distribution, and the complete spectrum of produced and used types, including common ceramic wares. Nevertheless, a rather exclusive group of glazed pottery still constitutes the principal source
of data concerning the general character of pottery production, the dynamics of technological change, and the distribution and use of ceramic wares during the Islamic period. Continuing debate about Islamic glazed pottery increasingly takes into account the results of archaeometrically based provenance studies (e.g., Abu-Jaber and al Saa’d 2000; Eiland and Williams 2001; Daszkiewicz et al. 2003; Mason 2004; Henshaw et al. 2006; Hill et al. 2007; Agha-Aligol et al.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-01002-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Jan Petřík [email protected]
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Department of Geological Sciences, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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Department of History, Palacký University, Na Hradě 5, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Department of Geological Sciences, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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Geology Department, Mosul University, Al-Majmoaa Street, Mosul, Iraq
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Department of Geological Sciences, Masaryk Un
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