EGYPTIAN RED SLIP WARE A AND ITS PRODUCTION AT THE SITE OF THE LATE ROMAN FORT AT NAG EL-HAGAR/UPPER EGYPT

Abstract

The late Roman fort at Nag el-Hagar is situated on the east bank of the Nile adjacent to a small village and palm gardens, c. 30 km north of Aswan, where the southern frontier
of the late Roman province of Thebaïs (Upper Egypt) ran near Philae and Syene. After having been partly excavated by the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) between 1984 and 1989, two seasons of documentation and field work on the fort were conducted in 2005/06 as part of an Egyptian-Swiss Joint Mission with the Swiss Institute of Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt at Cairo, co-directed by M. el-Bialy (Director General for Aswan and Nubia of the SCA) and M. Mackensen (Institute of Prehistory and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces of the University of Munich).