Pottery hand Aeolipile Assault weapons During the Islamic Period "A comparative archaeological and artistic study of models preserved in the British Museum and private collections"

Weapons are one of the most important industries
that the Arabs have been interested in and have
loved since the earliest Islamic eras. The Islamic
religion has urged self-defense, so man has
adopted weapons as a means of defending himself
to protect himself from enemies. He has been
interested in his personal weapon since ancient
times, and worked on developing it and took great
care of it during the Islamic era. The research
deals with a description of twenty-two pottery
bombs during the Islamic era from the Abbasid,
Fatimid, and Seljuk eras in Iran and the Ayyubid
era The study followed the descriptive analytical
approach by conducting a descriptive study of the
artistic pieces preserved in various European
museums and collections, in which it included a
description of each pottery bomb in terms of its
shape, dimensions, museum preservation number,
and the decorations executed on it. Then, it
conducted an analytical study in which it included
the raw material, the method of making pottery,
and the artistic formation, then an analysis of the
decorative elements of plant, geometric, animal
decorations, and bird drawings Then, I discussed
the industrial centers and tried to date the pottery
bombs that were the subject of the study and
attribute them to the time period in which they
were made by relying on the artistic features in
the first place, then relying on a comparative
study of them with other contemporary artistic
masterpieces in the same time period in the
second place Then a conclusion that includes the
most important results reached by the study, and I
made an explanatory table as a comparative study
of these bombs throughout the Islamic eras, then I
followed that with the most important shapes and
paintings that support the study