Pottery from the REFUSE DUMP Under Unit B.26 in Naqlun

The pottery assemblage from excavations carried out in 2008–2009 in the northern part of a monastic refuse dump at the southern fringes of the kom in Naqlun has proved to be different, in the repertoire of forms as much as the dating, from the pottery evidence recovered twenty years earlier from the southern part of this refuse dump. The ceramics represent a broad range of vessels produced in Egypt in the 6th and 7th centuries, including tableware and storage and transport containers. Imports from North Africa as well as the Eastern Mediterranean were also recorded. The stratigraphy of the monastic refuse dump was disturbed by the cut under two burials; the fill of the graves yielded 12th century pottery.