Mill stone at Tawahin es-Sukkar
Item
Title
Mill stone at Tawahin es-Sukkar
Description
Found in the mill house, the mill stone is where sugarcane was ground and pressed until all water has been extracted. Typically, mill stone operated hydraulically or manually with a grinding wheel on top.
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
