Crescent clay
<<Crescent clay. Islamic ceramics in the city of Valencia: 35 years of urban archaeology>> is the title of this exhibition project, around the exceptional municipal collection of ceramics emerged from the kilns of ancient al-Andalus and methodically recovered by the Municipal Archaeological Research Service (SIAM) over the last thirty-five years, thanks to the collective work of a whole generation of archaeologists. A whole universe, recovered from a secular oblivion, of forms of vessels, decorations or Arabic inscriptions, of high symbolic and iconographic content, which to the Valencians of the third millennium relays, here and now, the daily life and collective imagination of those pre-Valencians of eight hundred or a thousand years ago.
