Asolati Michele, Crisafulli Cristina, Mondin Cristina. Kom al-Ahmer - Kom Wasit II: Coin Finds 2012-2016. Late Roman and Early Islamic Pottery from Kom al-Ahmer

Archaeopress, 2019. — 356 p.In 2012, fieldwork began at two large sites in Egypt's western Delta, Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit, to investigate them thoroughly and to reveal their significance. They were ideally placed to take advantage of ancient trade between the areas around the Mediterranean and the important Egyptian ports of Rosetta, Thonis-Heracleion, and Alexandria.
The second volume presents over 1070 coins (ca. 310 BC–AD 641) and 1320 examples of Late Roman and Early Islamic pottery, testimony to the considerable commercial activity in the region during the Late Antique period. Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit emerge as centers of an exchange network involving large-scale trade of raw materials to and from the central and eastern Mediterranean.