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‘Atiqot 109 (2022)
ISBN 2948-040X
A Late Ottoman Ceramic Assemblage from the Harbor Area, Yafo (Jaffa)
(pp. 157–222)
Anna de Vincenz
Keywords: Mediterranean coast, trade, ceramics
The pottery retrieved from the excavations in the Yafo harbor dated mostly to the Late Ottoman period, from the eighteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The Ottoman-period ceramics consist of hard-paste ware, porcelain and stoneware vessels, such as plates, bowls, coffee cups and bottles, mainly imported from Europe, as well as earthenware vessels imported from Turkey and Greece, and glazed cooking pots from southern France. Black Gaza Ware and other coarse ware vessels were locally produced. Ottoman clay smoking pipes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were found abundantly in the excavation, while only a few narghile heads were recovered. The assemblage also includes a large quantity of roof tiles produced in the factories in and around Marseille.