Abstract: International audience; The archaeologist deduces from the shapes, the fabric and the various surface treatments of the pottery, their supposed functionality. Traces of consumption or utilization sometimes provide more precise information on the way they are used. However, some shapes resist interpretation like these multi-compartment dishes made in the Middle East and in the Iranian world before the Islamic period and which the manufacture is still attested in the 8th, 10th and 12th – 14th centuries (Rosen-Ayalon, 1973, p. 258–262). Multi-...
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Ancient history