From Italy to the Levant: Tracing of Roman fine pottery

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From Italy to the Levant: Tracing of Roman fine pottery

AMMAN — The Roman fine pottery from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD could be classified as “Italian Sigillata” and the “Eastern Sigillata” wares.Scholars started to write monographies about the Roman pottery in the 20th century and one of them was a study by Kathleen Kenyon (1906-1978) in 1957 about the pottery types she discovered in the West Bank.“The term “Eastern Sigillata D”