The Roman pottery from Kab Marfu’a
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Tomber, Roberta
Date published
2019
Abstract
This article looks at a pottery assemblage from the emerald processing site of Kab Marfu'a in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Dating primarily between the second and fourth centuries AD, it is functionally unusual, comprising a high percentage of imported amphorae and vessels for storage and pouring.
Book title
The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley. Expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1982-2015
Editor
Gates-Foster, Jennifer
Sidebotham, Steven E.
Rivard, Jean-Louis G.
Pagination
377-387
Publisher
American Schools of Oriental Research
Place of publication
Boston, MA