Karak Resources Project

For introductions to the archaeological study of pottery from all periods, see:

Henderson, J.

2000 The Science and Archaeology of Materials. An Investigation of Inorganic Materials. New York and London: Routledge: chapter 4.

Orton, C., Tyer, P. and Vince, A.

1993 Pottery in Archaeology. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Rice, P.

1987 Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press.

General accounts of the development of Islamic glazed pottery can be found in:

Grube, E.

1976 Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection. London: Thames and Hudson.

Lane, A.

1947 Early Islamic Pottery. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Turkey. London: Faber and Faber.

1957 Later Islamic Pottery. Persia, Syria, Egypt, Turkey. London: Faber and Faber.

For the types of pottery recovered on excavations in Jordan, see:

Hendrix, R., Drey, P. and Storfjell

1996 Ancient Pottery of Transjordan. An Introduction utilizing published whole Forms, Late Neolithic through Late Islamic. Berriens Springs: Siegfried H. Horn Archaeological Museum.

Johns, J.

1998 The Rise of Middle Islamic Hand-Made Geometrically-Painted Wares in Bila+d al-Sha+m. Pp.65-93 in Colloque international d’archéologie islamique. Textes Arabes et Études Islamiques 36, ed. R.-P. Gayraud. Cairo: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale.

Milwright, M.

2000 Pottery of Bilad al-Sham in the Ottoman Period: A Review of the Published Archaeological Evidence. Levant 32: 189-208.

Sauer, J.

1982 The Pottery of Jordan in the Early Islamic Periods. Pp.329-37 in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan, ed. A. Hadidi. Amman: Department of Antiquities of Jordan.

Islamic pottery of different periods on the Karak plateau is discussed in:

Brown, R.

1989 Excavations in the Fourteenth-Century Mamluk Palace at Kerak. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 33: 287-304.

1991 Ceramics of the Kerak Plateau. Pp.232-46 in Archaeological Survey of the Kerak Plateau. American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports, ed. J. M. Miller. Atlanta: Scholar’s Press.

McQuitty, A. and Falkner, R.

1993 The Faris Project: Preliminary Report on the 1989, 1990 and 1991 Season. Levant 25: 37-61.

McQuitty, A., Sarley-Pontin, M., Khoury, M., Charles, M. and Hoppe, C.

2000 Mamluk Khirbat Faris. Aram 9-10 (1997-98): 181-226.

Mason, R. and Milwright, M.

1998 Petrology of Middle Islamic Ceramics from Karak, Jordan. Levant 30: 175-90.

Other relevant publications concerning Islamic and Crusader pottery include:

Brown, R.

1988 Late Islamic Shobak: A Summary Report of the 1986 Excavations. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 32: 225-245.

Franken, H. and Kalsbeek, J.

1975 Potters of a Medieval Village in the Jordan Valley. Excavations at Tell Deir `Alla: a Medieval Tell, Tell Abu Gourdan, Jordan. North-Holland Ceramic Studies in Archaeology 3. Amsterdam.

McNicoll, A., Smith, R. and Hennessy, B.

1982 Pella in Jordan 1. An Interim Report on the Joint University of Sydney and the College of Wooster Excavations at Pella, 1979-1981. Canberra: Australian National Gallery.

Mershen, B.

1985 Recent Hand-made Pottery from Northern Jordan. Berytus 33: 75-78.

Pringle, D.

1985 Medieval Pottery from Caesarea: The Crusader Period. Levant 17: 171-202.

Sauer, J.

1973 Heshbon Pottery 1971. A Preliminary Report on the Pottery from the 1971 Excavations at Tell Heshban. Berriens Springs Mi.

Tushingham, A. D.

1972 Excavations at Dibon (Dhībân) in Moab. The Third Campaign. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 40. Cambridge Mass.

Vannini, G. and Vanni Desideri, A.

1997 Medieval Petra. Stratigraphic Evidence from Recent Archaeological Excavations at Wu`ayra. Pp.371-84 in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan VI, ed. A. Hadidi. Amman: Department of Antiquities of Jordan.

Walmsley, A. and Grey, T.

2001 An Interim Report on the Pottery from Gharandal (Arindela), Jordan. Levant 33: 139-64.

Whitcomb, D.

1988 A Fatimid Residence at Aqaba, Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 32: 207-24.

1990-1 Glazed Ceramics of the Abbasid Period from the Aqaba Excavations. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society 55: 43-66.