Trading Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean through Ceramics between Late Antiquity and Fatimid Times (Seventh–Tenth/Eleventh Centuries)

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Chapter 9 - Trading Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean through Ceramics between Late Antiquity and Fatimid Times (Seventh–Tenth/Eleventh Centuries)

from Part II - Economic Connections

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2022

Joanita Vroom

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Jelle Bruning ,

Janneke H. M. de Jong and

Petra M. Sijpesteijn

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Two major questions are crucial for understanding the historical development(s) of Egypt after antiquity. The first one is: How was Egypt embedded in larger structures and developments in the eastern Mediterranean from late Roman times onward? The second one is: How did Egypt operate within these larger networks? In order to address these questions from an archaeological perspective, I set out to take a new look at aspects of the material culture in Egypt during the late antique and early Islamic periods, using a bottom-up perspective. More precisely, it is my intention to discuss both the production and the regional distribution of some of the most widely used pottery types in Egypt from around the seventh to the tenth/eleventh centuries, as well as the medium- and long-distance movements of these ceramic products in the eastern Mediterranean and beyond.1

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Information: Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE
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