Equipment

626 sourced equipment pages: vessels, tools, appliances and built structures.

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An illustrated convex metal saj griddle supported above a small bed of embers.
Equipment

Saj

A portable convex metal griddle used for thin flatbreads. Surveyed forms are about 50 cm across and set over embers; regional names and modern heat sources vary.

Baking surfaces and griddles
Jordan
Editorial illustration of a traditional Egyptian earthenware ballas jar, its mouth covered with palm sheath and cloth and sealed with mud and chaff; the drawing is interpretive, not an archaeological record.
Equipment

Mish ripening jar

Mish is ripened in capacious earthenware jars called ballas or zallaa. Sources describe layered cheese, seasoned salty liquid and a sealed mouth, but give no standard capacity or universal jar geometry.

Jars, pots and crocks
Egypt