Ancient Israelite cuisine aside, and the loaves were baked on the heated surface. People also began placing a convex dome, initially earthenware and later metal, over the pit-oven and cooking the flatbreads on the dome instead of on the ash-covered surface; this type of oven is probably what was meant by the biblical "machabat", often translated as “griddle”. The Persians introduced a clay oven called a tanur (similar to the Indian tandoor), which had an opening at the bottom for the fire, and through which the bread was placed to be baked on the inner wall of the upper chamber from the heat
Coke Oven Hollow, Indiana 1837, a coal mine was noted at the settlement, used for the production of coke. A pottery had been established at nearby Annapolis since 1841. Potters' clay mined at Garrard Quarry in Coke Oven Hollow was used there to manufacture stoneware. A flatboat builder was also located at Coke Oven Hollow. Industrial activities declined by the early 1900s, and the settlement today is covered by mature forest, and is located within the Mossy Point Nature Preserve. Coke Oven Hollow, Indiana Coke Oven Hollow (also called Foundry) is a ghost town in Penn Township, Parke County, in the U.S. state of