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Traditional Arab pottery is marked with a variety of shapes, naturally occurring hues, and most notably deep blue, turquoise, copper greens and earth reds. This ceramic bowl encompasses all aspects of traditional Islamic ceramics. The addition of the pseudo Arabic, though, hints that the creator of this object had no prior knowledge of Arabic, and attempted to copy the script onto the bowl. This attempt to transcribe the Arabic reveals that the bowl's source originates in a historically Arab occupied region.