Mill house at Tawahin es-Sukkar
Item
Title
Mill house at Tawahin es-Sukkar
Description
Here, sugarcane was crushed and pressed. This mill house was built phases and consisted of two elongated rooms. The inner, older room housed the mill stone, and the outer room, built later, was additional space for pressing sugarcane.
Creator
Unknown
Temporal Coverage
Ca. 12th Century CE
Spatial Coverage
Jericho, Jordan Valley, Palestine
Type
Image
Date Created
2015-05-23
Source
Hamdan Taha, "The Sugarcane Industry in Jericho, Jordan Valley," in The Origins of the Sugar Industry and the Transmission of Ancient Greek and Medieval Arab Science and Technology from the Near East to Europe, ed Konstantinos D. Politis (Athens: National and Kapodistriako University Athens, 2015) 61.
Contributor
Ruby Wolff
Rights
K. D. Politis, authors and National and Kapodistriako University of Athens
