CATALOGUE

  BAKING OVEN
          PAN (TANNÛR) 
Islamic pottery of the c/ Curtidores-Filet de Fora (Elche)

Ceramics
h: 46,5 CM; w: 54 cm
Caliphate
10th-11th centuries


 

A portable oven for baking bread, also known as a tannûr. It is a cylindrical piece with a cylindrical body, a pointed, thickened rim at the entrance and a simple convex lip on the outside. Its lower part has semi-circular windows that are used for the extraction of ashes at its lower end. Inside, there are characteristic vertical incisions that allow the bread cakes to grip the walls of the oven.
It corresponds to variant A documented by S. Gutiérrez in the materials from the Ribat de Guardamar and Palacio de Altamira in Elche. As it is a piece made of ceramic, and therefore rigid, and medium-sized, which makes it easy to handle and transport, it is extremely useful for carrying fire and cooking to places where there are no ovens and the presence of cooking instruments is practically impossible.
C.S.: 8169
AZUAR, R. and MENÉNDEZ, J.L., 1997.
AZUAR, R. and MENÉNDEZ, J.L., 1999.