Location: Islamic Tower

Name: Fragment of a bowl or aljasana

Chronology: XIV – XV Centuries

Place of production: Paterna

Material: Hand-painted ceramic

Dimensions: Basin diameter: 6.5 cm

Use and function: To serve and contain food, especially meat and fish

Description: Typology A-2-1 (Pasqual and Martí, 1986). Kitchen pottery decorated with a partridge modelled with brown bands, filled with green traces and surrounded by palms. The whole is surrounded by a border.

State of preservation: Fragment. The base and part of the body are preserved

Provenance of find: Silla. Excavations in the courtyard of the Tower, 2001