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October 16, 2006
Marie Jenkins-Madina Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2005. 260 pp.; 119 color ills.; 189 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0300111436)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2006.110

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In the last years of the nineteenth century, a group of glazed stonepaste (also known as fritware) vessels appeared in the showrooms of Europe and the United States. In the early years of the new century, scholars and connoisseurs started to associate the underglaze-painted and luster-painted wares with the ancient city of Raqqa in northeastern Syria. Largely abandoned since the mid-thirteenth century, the great walled city was at the time being repopulated by Circassians who,...