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‘Atiqot 51 (2006)
ISBN 2948-040X
Note on a Glazed Bowl with a Medallion of a Feline from Khirbat Burin
(pp. 215–219)
Lev Kapitaikin
Keywords: medieval period, pottery, art, iconography, numismatics, epigraphy
A fragment from a large, Mamluk-period glazed-ware bowl was found in the Khirbat Burin excavations, decorated with a molded relief. The decoration is divided into three registers: the upper register is occupied by a naskh inscription, interrupted by a medallion enclosing a figure of a large feline; the two lower registers are decorated with simple geometric motifs. This vessel type dates from the fourteenth–fifteenth centuries CE, and is reported from many sites in the Levant. It might have been produced in greater Syria.