Borj Belkari

Borj Belkari
برج بالقاري
Borj Belkari tower. Built in the 17th century.
General information
Type	bastion
Architectural style	Moroccan
Location	Meknes, Morocco
Completed	17th century

Borj Belkari (Arabic: برج بالقاري, romanized: Burj bel-kari) is a bastion tower built in the 17th century as a part of the defensive walls of the Kasbah of Sultan Moulay Ismail in Meknes, Morocco.^[1] Since 2003 this tower holds the museum of pottery.^[2][3]

Museum collection

Inside the museum of pottery in Borj Belkari tower, Meknes.

The Museum houses pottery collections of the Rif and the anterior Rif regions arranged in both chronological and thematic groupings and the fabrication procedures of Rif pottery from the prehistoric period to the present. The visit starts on the right of the entrance with archaeological ceramic finds in order to better appreciate the current pottery in the museum. It finishes with a reconstruction of a pottery workshop. The permanent collection is composed of prehistoric, vintage and Islamic pottery, and of pottery from different geographical zones of Morocco. The first section presents the history of the ceramics of the Rif and the pre-Rif periods distributed in three halls. The visitor has the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the characteristics of prehistoric ceramics, through the observation of several shapes, modeled or crafted and enriched with decoration. A second hall displays the pottery of ceramics that date back to the pre-Islamic period, and a third hall houses Islamic ceramics, especially green ceramics. As for the second section, it is entirely devoted to the current and old workshops of pottery.the pottery and ceramic pottery comes from five regions (Zerhoun and Meknes, Oued Laou, Ouazzane and Sless, Kariat Ba Mohamed and Tsoul), are displayed.^[4]

References

1. Barrucand, Marianne (2019-11-18), Boucheron, Patrick; Chiffoleau, Jacques (eds.), "Les relations entre ville et ensemble palatial dans les « villes impériales » marocaines : Marrakech et Meknès", Les Palais dans la ville : Espaces urbains et lieux de la puissance publique dans la Méditerranée médiévale, Collection d’histoire et d’archéologie médiévales, Presses universitaires de Lyon, pp. 325–341, ISBN 978-2-7297-1086-6, retrieved 2020-06-07
2. "Musée Borj Bel Kari" (in French). Archived from the original on 2021-11-03. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
3. Morocco-guide.com. "Borj BelKari Museum | Meknes | Morocco Guide". Morocco-guide.com. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
4. "Presentation of the museum of pottery", Morocco Guide, web Retrieved on 20 February 2017.

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