Islamic Ghazni: Fired clay
Inv. no. IG6284

Glazed ceramic tiles
IsMEO / IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan, 1966
Ghazni, Ghaznavid Palace
Room XVIII
IG6284

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IG6284b

Plain tile
Fired clay
Mould
4.6x1.2 cm
Late 11th - early 13th c.

Fragment of a red monochrome star-shaped tile, with cut straight edges; only one point of the star is preserved. Fine fabric, identical to the one identified for the glazed vessels of the Ghazni pottery corpus (Fabric no. 25). The glaze is matt and shows many crackles. Small portions of the front surface peeled, with the flaking of the glaze. The rear surface is broken and almost completely lost.

Current location: Rome, Sapienza University
Neg. no.: –
Digital photos: A. Fusaro, 2011
Drawings: –