Os primeiros vidrados no Gharb al-Andalus no século IX-X: análises arqueométricas e interpretação histórica

Abstract

This paper is aimed to clarify the beginnings of the glaze technology in the far west Islamic world, the garb al-Andalus. The scarcity of glazed ceramics for the early Islamic period suggests that they were not local productions, but imports. Five glazed ceramics found in the present-day south of Portugal have been analysed in order to determine their provenances.