Fragment of an opaque turquoise monochrome tile, with cut straight edges. Fine fabric, identical to the one identified for the glazed vessels of the Ghazni pottery corpus (Fabric no. 25). The glaze shows a white alteration layer. The front surface shows two small spots unglazed, one of them coincides with a small hole in the ceramic body. The rear surface is even and shows oblique incisions, probably made with a knife possibly for a firmer bedding of the tile into the architectural surface. The tile shows a (post-firing) clean cut, perpendicular to the surfaces and with smoothed fractures; the cut was made intentionally; the cut was not made through the tile completely, so that the rest (2 mm, upper part of the fracture) was broken manually in a far less precise way. Two hypotheses are suggested: the tile was cut to be reused after its breakage or the tile was cut for a proper fit before setting it on the architectural surface.

Current location: Rome, Sapienza University

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Digital photos: A. Fusaro, 2011
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