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Sgraffito-ware bowl
showing a horseman in urban Arab costume, Asia Minor or Syria?, 13th century
Title: Bowl
Place of creation: Asia Minor
Date: 13th century
Material: clay
Technique: sgraffito, colourless glaze
Dimensions: height: 10cm; diameter: 22 cm
Place of finding: Ancient city of Chersonesos
Acquisition date: Originally in the materials collected during the archaeological excavations at Chersonese
Inventory Number: Х-316
Source: State Hermitage Museum Х-316
Referenced on p.5, Saracen Faris 1050-1250 AD by David Nicolle and Christa Hook
Sgraffito-ware bowl showing a horseman in urban Arab costume, with a hunting bird on his wrist, 13th century (bowl from the Crimea, probably northern Syrian). (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia)