Name: Cooking pot

Provenance: Citadel of Mértola
Location: Museum of Mértola
Description: A cooking pot with inverted rim, grooved globular body and convex base with two vertical handles of oval cross section with a central ridge. The pot is fully covered with a honey-coloured lead glaze.
Chronology: Second half of the 12th century. Early 13th century.
Dimensions: 7.3 x 11 cm

Name: Oil lamp

Provenance: Citadel of Mértola
Location: Islamic Museum of Mértola
Chronology: Late 12th century / first quarter of the 13th century
Description: A bronze oil lamp consisting of a globular chamber leading to a frustoconical nozzle. The lamp has a semi-circular handle, with a stylised lotus flower ornament, leading from the rim to the flat circular base.
Dimensions: Height 55mm; length 115mm; width 40mm

Name: Hilarinus epitaph

Name: Distaff

Name: Pottery neck fragment with applied decoration

Provenance: Citadel of Mértola (1992)
Location: CAM Deposit - VD-DV7.107.
Dimensions: Max. width. 23 mm, max. height 23 mm, weight 1.41 g.
Chronology: 12th-13th centuries.
Materials: Green glass with turquoise applied decoration
Technique: Mould-blown with relief decoration – applied parallel lines of turquoise-blue glass paste.
Condition: Good

Name: Gold Medal

Name: Portable stove decorated with horseshoe arches

Name: Large bowl in partial “dry string” technique

Name: St. Sebastian

Name: Water pot with glaze and stamped decoration