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Title: 

Ceramics from Ain el-Gedida (Dakhleh Oasis): preliminary results

Authors: Dixneuf, Delphine
Keywords: Ancient Egypt;Roman Egypt;Late Antique Egypt;Ain el-Gedida;Dakhla Oasis;Archaeology;Monasticism;Early Christianity
Issue Date: 2012
Publisher: Oxford, Oxbow
Citation: The Oasis Papers 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project; R.S. Bagnall, P. Davoli, C.A. Hope (eds) Oxford, Oxbow (2012), pp. 459-470
Abstract: The excavations conducted at the site of Ain el-Gedida provided an abundant quantity of pottery fragments of a rather homogeneous chronological range, spanning the period from the end of the third to the beginning of the fifth century. The catalogue includes a large variety of shapes, mainly of a local or regional source (more than 98% of all the material), and rarely from the Nile Valley. The major categories are storage jars, juglets and water jugs, cooking-pots, common wares to prepare and serve food, fine wares, and lamps. After a short presentation of the main fabrics, I will discuss the ceramics coming from the church complex and the unfired pottery fragments found in a building located in the west edge of the main hill of the site.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2451/74599
Appears in Collections:The NYU Amheida Excavations

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