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See Ann Killebrew’s chapter on Roman and Byzantine pottery, final report of the excavations at Deir el-Balah (forthcoming).

Mitchell Allen, “The Ashkelon Regional Archaeological Survey.” Paper presented at the national AIA convention in San Francisco, December, 1990. This research will soon appear as part of his Ph.D. dissertation being completed at the Institute of Archaeology, UCLA.

Ann Killebrew of the Hebrew University has added another type of amphora (her Type A found at Deir el-Balah) to the repertoire of so-called Gaza wine jars. Our results at Ashkelon confirm her suggestion.

Riley, “The Pottery from the First Session,” p. 30.

John A. Riley, “The Pottery from the First Session of Excavation in the Caesarea Hippodrome,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, p. 30, n. 20.

Strabo, 16.2.29; Pliny, Natural History 19.32.101–107.

Michael Avi-Yonah, The Holy Land: From the Persian to the Arab Conquest (536 B.C.–A.D. 640) (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1977), pp. 195–196, and Applebaum, “Economic Life in Palestine,” p. 648.

Naphtali Lewis, Life in Egypt Under Roman Rule (Oxford: Clarendon, 1985), p. 54.

See John Boswell, The Kindness of Strangers—The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (New York: Pantheon, 1988). He is more sanguine than I am about the prospects of exposed infants and children being rescued.

Personal communication from Professor Katherine Dunhabin.