Description
Book SynopsisKom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit were ideally placed to take advantage of the Mediterranean trade given their close proximity to the Egyptian ports of Thonis-Heracleion, Alexandria, and Rosetta during the Hellenistic, Roman, Late Roman, and early Islamic period. The social and economic vitality of the sites has been revealed during investigations undertaken by the Italian archaeological mission between 2012 and 2016 and published in
Kom al-Ahmer – Kom Wasit I: Excavations in the Metelite Nome, Egypt ca. 700 BC – AD 100.
This volume presents over 1070 coins (ca. 310 BC–AD 641) and 1320 examples of Late Roman and Early Islamic pottery, testimony to the considerable commercial activity in the region during the Late Antique period. Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit emerge as centers of an exchange network involving large-scale trade of raw materials to and from the central and eastern Mediterranean.
Table of ContentsPreface ;
Introduction ;
The Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit Archaeological Project II ; First Phase: 2012–2016 ;
Part 1: Coin Finds 2012–2016 (
Michele Asolati and Cristina Crisafulli) ; Introduction ; Conditions of the Coins and the Metallographic Analyses ; Coin Finds at Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit ; The Late Imperial Coins from Kom al-Ahmer, Unit 4: The Finds and their Distribution ; The Late Imperial Coins from Kom al-Ahmer: The Distribution of Types and Mints ; The Latest Evidence ; Catalogue ; Bibliography ;
Part 2: Late Roman and Early Islamic Pottery from Kom al-Ahmer (
Cristina Mondin) ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Methodology ; 3. Pottery Quantification (C. Mondin, M.L. Patanè) ; 4. Contexts ;
4.1 Unit 4 ; 4.2 Unit 1 – The Cistern and Late Roman Structures ; 4.3 Unit 2 – The Early Islamic presence ; 4.4 Summary Chronology of the Contexts ; 5. Pottery Corpus ;
5.1 Imported Fine Ware ; 5.2 Egyptian Fine Ware ; 5.3 Imported Utilitarian Ware ; 5.4 Egyptian Utilitarian Ware ; 5.5 Imported Amphorae ; 5.6 Egyptian Amphorae (M. Kenawi, C. Mondin) ; 5.7 Miscellaneous ; 6. Conclusions ; Plates ; Bibliography ; Appendix 1: Fine Ware Quantification ; Appendix 2
