After Alexander

Pella in Jordan: The Early Roman and Hellenistic Periods describes the excavations carried out by the University of Sydney and the College of Wooster since 1978/79. It deals with the stratigraphy of these levels and describes and catalogues the pottery recovered from them. This volume includes:


(1) a brief introduction to Pella and a short history of the excavations at the site


(2) a detailed description of the excavations in Hellenistic-Early Roman levels of plots where significant material has been recovered, accompanied by sections, plans and images of the excavated plots


(3) a detailed catalogue of the corpus of some 900 individual Hellenistic-Early Roman pottery fragments, including outline drawings for each fragment and photographs of some of the more important fragments


(4) a final discussion of the relevance and importance of (2) and (3) as regards the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods in Jordan and the southern Levant.