Abstract

This paper looks at pottery as one key to understanding the effects on Egypt of incorporation into the Empire. We look at the impact pottery had on Egyptians and measure aspects of that impact to consider degrees and forms of acculturation, and its limits. Only in recent years has research, fostered particularly by the French Institute and its publication, the Cahiers de la ceramique egyptienne, begun to give adequate attention to pottery of the period in Egypt. One result, strikingly underscoring the complexity of the interactions between indigenous and new social forces, has been to demonstrate that production and distribution of Roman pottery in Egypt long outlasted rule. We can now see that this

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