
By Jere L. Bacharach
The ten stories during this volume—covering beads, bone, cash, glass weights and vessel stamps, clinical tools, clinical prescriptions, steel gadgets, and textiles—demonstrate the big variety of archaeological fabric as soon as present in al-Fustat, a website now not available due to the fact such a lot of it's been buried lower than city improvement or misplaced to a emerging water table.
Contributors: Ibrahim Abd al-Rahman, Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Tawwab, Henri Amin Awad, Jere L. Bacharach, Michael L. Bates, Lidia Domaszewicz, Katharina Eldada, Peter Francis, Jr., Sami ok. Hamarneh, Nancy Arthur Hoskins, Peter Mentzel, Norman D. Nicol, Elizabeth Rodenbeck, W. Luke Treadwell
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