4to. 132 pp., +155 figures hors text with their description on adjacent pages, +103 b/w plates, cloth in dust wrapper, appendices, biblio, tables, British Academy Monographs in Archaeology No 11, published for the Council for British Research in the Levant, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998.

Synopsis

The book investigates the history and archaeology of Qal’at Ja’bar, an important Islamic fortified settlement in the middle Euphrates in Syria. Dr Tonghini concentrates on the ceramics, providing a detailed and well documented classification and chronological framework based on the stratigraphic sequence from her soundings at the site.