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Summary
Les poteries et faïences de Bougie is part III of Georges Marçais's Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane, published in Constantine in 1916. 4 Its subject is about a hundred Islamic-period ceramic fragments collected by M. Debruge in and around Bougie between 1903 and 1907, mostly outside the western rampart near the Bab Fouka, and later given to the Constantine Museum. 5
The town's history in his account
- Bougie was the Carthaginian Saldae and then a Roman city; Ibn Hawqal mentions it in the tenth century, and al-Bakri calls it a very ancient city with a good winter anchorage, peopled by Andalusians. 6
- When Arab tribes threatened their mountain citadel, the Banu Hammad made it their capital; it became a city of trade, shipbuilding and ironwork, and many legends attach to the Hammadid al-Nasir. 6 7
- After the fall of the Hammadids in 1152 it sank to the seat of a distant Almohad province; from 1234 it was a Hafsid seat and appanage of the Hafsid heir, and a centre for merchants of Venice, Pisa, Genoa, Marseille and Catalonia. 8
- The Spanish took it in 1510, and Salah Rais retook it in 1555. 9
Findings
He divides the fragments into about ten families and holds most of them to be local Berber work of Bougie, with some imports: Hammadid faience (late eleventh to mid-twelfth century) with brown manganese lines and green spots; the blue-painted "Marseille period" group, whose counterparts found at Marseille let him date it to the thirteenth century; black-painted and incised pottery; lustre ware, whose manufacture and export at Bougie he infers from a text of 1312; and blue pieces probably from Valencia. 10 11 12 2 He concludes that Bougie, heir to the industry of the Qal'a of the Banu Hammad, had its own processes, style and favourite motifs, including the grid, and exported its wares to Italy and Provence. 3
Connections
- Authored by
- Georges Marçais
- About
- Béjaïa
- Mentions
- al-Qal'a (Qal'at Bani Hammad)· Hammadid dynasty· Islamic lustreware
People and things also explored
Abbasid tin-glazed ware· Early Islamic Pottery (Arthur Lane)· Islamic lustreware· Georges Marçais· Ibn Ghaniya's seizure of Béjaïa (580 AH)· Fritware (stonepaste)· Inlaid metalwork· Iznik pottery
Sources
- Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 29
- Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 32
- Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 33
- Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 1
- Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 3
- Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 5
- Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 6
- Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 7
- Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 8
- Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 10
- Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 30
- Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 31
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