The Wheel Thrown Pottery in Southern Bilad al-Sham (12th-13th c.): production and consumption. The case-study of Shawbak (Southern Jordan). Part 1. Study – Part 2. Catalog

Part 1. STUDY

Letter from the Series Editors

Foreword

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Pottery from Crusader, Ayyubid, and Mamluk periods (12th-13th centuries) in southern Bilad al-Sham: considerations on Status Quaestionis
• 3. The Shawbak Castle: a Case-Study
• 3.1 Historical-Geographical Framework
• 3.2 The Progress of Archaeological Research at the Shawbak Castle Site
• 3.3 Description of the Excavation Areas .
• 3.4 Summary (Synthesis) of the Settlement Phases (Occupation History)
• 4. Wheel-made Pottery from Crusader, Ayyubid, and Mamluk Contexts at Shawbak: Typological Analyses
• 4.1 Quantification of the Test Sample (Pottery Corpus)
• 4.2 Typologies from Shawbak
• 5. Pottery Production and Consumption at Shawbak (and in southern Bilad Al-Sham). Some reflections on the interactions between humans and things
• 5.1 Final Considerations on (plain wheel-made) Pottery from the 12th and 13th century phases in Shawbak, Transjordan, and Southern Bilad Al-Sham: An Attempt at Chronology
• 6. Conclusions and research prospects
• 6.1 Final remarks
• 6.2 Research prospects

Bibliography

Part 2. CATALOG

• 7. Catalog
• 7.1 Conventions used in the Catalog: Introduction to Macro-Typologies from Shawbak
• 7.2 Wheel-made plain ware
• 7.3 Association Pottery – Stratigraphic Phases (Phases and Chronology)

Attachment – Extract from the original (in Italian) inventory database – PETRAdata pottery databases, developed and utilized by the team of the “Medieval Petra-Shawbak” project over the years – containing detailed descriptions of the records related to the pottery sherds examined in this manuscript.