Nabataean and Roman coarse ware cooking pottery from Aila (Aqaba, Jordan)
The Roman Aqaba Project seeks to reconstruct diachronically the economic history of the ancient port of Aila on the Red Sea (now modern Aqaba in southern Jordan).Excavations of Disposable Straws Aila between 1994 and 2003 yielded an enormous quantity of stratified ceramic evidence.This paper focuses on coarse ware cooking vessels recovered from Ail