Field Report on the 2000 and 2001 Seasons at Amheida

Abstract

Since 2000 a large interdisciplinary archaeological project has focused on a settlement site known today as Amheida. There are substantial above ground remains at Amheida and surface pottery scattered across the urban core with dates ranging from pharaonic, Ptolemaic,Roman to Late Antique periods. We believe Amheida to be the Roman city of Trimithis and, according to literary sources, this was also the location of a Roman military garrison. However, the site may have had substantial occupation pre-dating Roman settlement, as the surrounding landscape suggests.