Although finds of plain handmade wares of the Late Islamic periods in the southern Levant do not form a homogeneous group in terms of morphological diversity, chronology, and fabric repertoire, scholars working in the field commonly register them into one cumulative assemblage. This trend is mostly inevitable because of the remarkable longevity of forms, some reaching even 900 years, and an omnipresent regionalism of pottery productions. Yet, despite the corpus of archaeological works that has emerged in the last decades broadly addressing the problems of Islamic settlements and ceramics, more detailed chrono-typological seriations of handmade wares are still impossible to carry out, and usually particular vessels cannot be dated by type but only by their stratigraphic context. To a large extent, this difficulty also applies to handmade wares with painted decoration, which are only slightly better recognized in the scientific literature.
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