black outlines

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

Executed as outlines for vegetal scrolls and as diagonal strokes on the neck (p. 57). A coat of black pigment also covers the lip of the everted rim (p. 57).

Evidence

"abstract vegetal scrolls executed in black outlines set within vertical registers are delineated by upper and lower horizontal bands"

Remarks

Associated with 'Raqqaware' jar AIA.0022.0000. These wares were often used to store food stuffs or other materials in 12th and 13th century Syria (p. 57).