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‘Atiqot 100 (2020)
ISBN 2948-040X
Byzantine- and Ottoman-Period Pottery Assemblages from Rabbi Yehuda Me-Raguza Street, Yafo (Jaffa)
(pp. 75–119)
Anna de Vincenz
Keywords: trade, imported wares, history of manufacture, wine industry
The excavations on Rabbi Yehuda Me-Raguza Street yielded mostly Ottoman-period material, alongside a fair amount of Byzantine-period ceramics. The finds from the Byzantine period (sixth–eighth centuries CE) include imported vessels from North Africa, Phocaea and Cyprus, and locally produced basins and storage jars. The late Ottoman-period material is varied and includes both imported and local wares—porcelain, hard-paste, glazed earthenware, Black Gaza Ware and Coarse Ware—as well as construction material such as roof tiles, floor tiles and bricks. The Ottoman-period material was imported from Turkey and Greece, as well as from Italy and France. Hard-paste and porcelain vessels were usually imported from Europe, and the construction material was imported from southern France.