Kom al-Ahmer - Kom Wasit II Coin Finds 2012-2016 Late Roman and Early Islamic Pottery from Kom al-Ahmer

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 Contents
Preface ;
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