Mamluk Period Slipper Lamp

Item

Title

Mamluk Period Slipper Lamp

Description

A large slipper lamp found at Tawahin es-Sukkar that indicates the mill ran sometime during the Ayyubid-Mamluk period.

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) 68.

Contributor

Ruby Wolff

Rights

K. D. Politis, authors and National and Kapodistriako University of Athens

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