Abstract
This article presents a discussion of the ceramics recovered from recent exploratory excavations in the town of Raqqa in northern Syria. Two sondages were excavated inside the eastern sector of the walls of ancient Rafiqa (Raqqa), approximately 700 m. north of the Baghdad Gate. Sondage 1 revealed a section of brick wall and a paved surface that may be connected with the eastern gate of the Abbasid city (known in historical sources as Bab Sibal). Sondage 2 revealed the stoking hole of a pottery kiln. Further evidence for late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century industrial activity was located in Sondage 2 in the form of kiln furniture and alkaline-glazed stonepaste wasters.
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