Pre-Islamic Pottery from Ajdabiyah

Abstract

AbstractIn the course of the Islamic period excavations at Ajdabiyah during the 1970s, three sondages through the floor of the Islamic mosque, produced a limited amount of pre-Islamic pottery. The pottery ranged in date from the early Hellenistic period through to the seventh century AD, attesting more or less continuous occupation of the area. The suite of pottery shapes resembled those commonly occurring in stratified levels at Berenice (Benghazi), illustrating the regional similarity of local wares.