Jar Shards with Arabic Inscriptions
Item
Title
Jar Shards with Arabic Inscriptions
Description
These shards from jars provide insight into sugar production. The first shard reads "The good honey." The second: "Good honey, Friday forty-five kettles." Sugar was often referred to as honey/honey reeds throughout Islam, despite honey itself having a prominent place in society.
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) 64.
Contributor
Ruby Wolff
Rights
K. D. Politis, authors and National and Kapodistriako University of Athens
