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The Swahili and the Mediterranean worlds: pottery of the late Roman period from Zanzibar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Abdurahman M. Juma
Abdurahman M. Juma*
Affiliation:
Department of Antiquities, Museums & Archives, PO Box 116, Zanzibar, Tanzania
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Abstract

Mortimer Wheeler famously tied together the worlds of ancient Rome and ancient India by finding Roman ceramics stratified into levels at Arikamedu, in south India. Late Roman pottery from far down the East African coast now permits the same kind of matching link from the Mediterranean to a distant shore, this one in the Swahili world.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 267 , March 1996 , pp. 148 - 154
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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