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Author Asolati, Michele, author

Title Kom Al-Ahmer - Kom Wasit. II, Coin finds 2012-2016, late Roman and early Islamic pottery from Kom Al-Ahmer / Michele Asolati, Cristina Crisafulli and Cristina Mondin ; with contributions by Maria Lucia Patanè and Mohamed Kenawi
Published Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Series Archaeopress archaeology
Archaeopress archaeology.
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
Summary This volume presents over 1070 coins (ca. 310 BC-AD 641) and 1320 examples of Late Roman and Early Islamic pottery. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2020)
Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt -- Nile River Delta
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
SUBJECT Hierakonpolis (Extinct city) -- Antiquities
Nile River Delta (Egypt) -- Antiquities
Subject Egypt -- Hierakonpolis (Extinct city)
Egypt -- Nile River Delta
Form Electronic book
Author Crisafulli, Cristina, author
Mondin, Cristina, author
ISBN 1789693977
9781789693973
Other Titles Coin finds 2012-2016
Late Roman and early Islamic pottery from Kom al-Ahmer