Selected Lamps and Pottery from the Hippodrome at Jerash

Abstract

There is only a small amount of Roman pottery (sherds) which comes from homogeneous and undisturbed levels and which can be used for dating the architectural context in which the sherds were found.2 Pottery fragments nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 belong to a small sherds deposit found in the original earth/rubble fill, at the bottom of the foundation trench of the podium wall in chamber E44 (Ostrasz 1989: fig. 2). Fragment no. 3 comes from the fill between stones of the still standing remains of the transverse wall between chambers E52 and E53.3 These five fragments and the remaining thirty odd sherds of the deposit from E44 can all be dated to the second century A.D.