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Pottery Sites Near Aden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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In the vicinity of Aden and Abyan there are many pottery sites of archaeological interest, which are still little known, although this is in no way due to any difficulty in finding the sites for there is usually extensive surface evidence. In fact in some places wind erosion has exposed thick layers of pottery fragments.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1963

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page 152 note 1 Ibid., cf. p. 123.

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Page 153 note 1 Archaeology in the Holy Land by Kenyon, K., p. 123Google Scholar. “The burnishing, always by hand, is sometimes continuous and sometimes in criss-cross or other patterns,…” (At Ṣubr the lattice patterns may have been formed by careless strokes when nearing the bottom of the bowl.) [writer's note]

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