A Descriptive and Analytical study for Fāṭimid jug filters collection in Ismailia Museum (Unpublished)

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Tour Guidance Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Suez Canal University

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This study comprised six unpublished jug filters from Ismailia Museum reserve, I examined, studied, and photographed them after obtaining the needed approvals from the administration of Ismailia Museum and the Egyptian ministry of Antiques. The jug filters represent one of the common social folk arts, the witnessed the accuracy, imagination, innovation, and high taste of the Muslim artist, and proves that the artist was working only for the purpose of art. It is a small round disk, fitted into the neck’s juncture of unglazed clay water jugs to protect the contents from insects and pollution. They were generally unglazed and undecorated as other pottery utensils; the designs were etched into the damp clay before the jug was heated. Their decorative patterns comprised zoomorphic, vegetal, and epigraphic motifs of Short benedictory words written in polished foliated or plain Kufic script, and they were frequently well-crafted. Many of these filters were discovered during the archaeological excavations carried out at al-Fusṭāṭ site. The first Islamic capital of Egypt, founded by ʿAmr bin al- ʿAse.

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Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality

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Available Online from 04 April 2022

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