Robert Smith records Ilkanid (14th century) house walls and a tannur (Arabic, bread oven)
discovered close to the surface at the summit of the tell in Square 1 during the 1987 season.
A well preserved Ayyubid Period
house destroyed in ca. AD 1260; first exposed in the 1987 field season.
The white plastered walls of a kitchen preserved a plaster
pot rest and the outlines for wooden cabinets against the south wall of the kitchen. Dating
of the building was based upon copper coins, pottery sherds, and lamps.
Mudbrick steps on the east side of the Area 1 Ayyubid house demonstrate that the house
was a two story building.
Red painted design on a piece of Ayyubid Period wall plaster that had slumped onto the floor.
The meaning of the design is unclear though I may symbolize a shield.
Judy Herzog stands on a bulk between squares 3 and 4 during the early weeks of the
1987 field season. An Ayyubid Period plaster floor surface (locus 8) is visible
in the profile.
Islamic loci in association with an Ayyubid Period mudbrick walls in excavation unit 5.
Robert Smith measures an intrusive burial at the summit of the tell in Area 1.
Intrusive Islamic burial within the Ayyubid strata. The burial was probably of a bedouin
from the Ottoman Period occupation of Tuneinir.
Intrusive Islamic burial within the ayyubid strata
Ayyubid Period (13th century AD) green glaze bowl from Area 1, Square 33, Locus 32.
Uncleaned copper coin of Kutb al-din Muhammad (AH 594 - 616 / AD 1197 - 1219) from Area 1
Ayyubid Period (13th century AD) Blue and Black glaze bowl from Area 1, Square 15, Locus 22;
discovered during the 1989 field season.
Ayyubid Period (13th century AD) glass sherd with calligraphic inscription. Discovered in
Square 15, locus 13 during the 1989 season.
Fragment of jewelry found in Square 17, locus 04 during 1989 field season.
Iron knife found in Square 13, locus 05 during 1989 field season.
Basalt grinding stone found in Square 20, locus 09 during 1993 field season.
Unglazed pottery vessel with combed decoration found in Square 27, locus 40.
Unglazed pottery bodysherd with two incised designs (Greek letters?); discovered in Square 28, locus 14.
Blue and black glazed pottery bodysherd; discovered during 1999.
Metal artifacts from the first season of excavation during .
Plan of the Ayyubid Period house excavated during the 1987 and 1988 field seasons.
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Updated 2 April 2008
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Updated 25 December 2008
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