By Samuel Grady Gillett and Veronica Iacomi
This handbook to the Late Roman Amphora 1 (LRA1) is a publication of the Levantine Ceramics Project (https://www.levantineceramics.org/), an open-access resource for the study of Levantine pottery, its societies, cultures, and economies, from the Neolithic era (ca. 5500 BCE) until today. For four hundred years (fourth–seventh centuries), the LRA1 served as both agent and symbol of the deeply entwined, far-flung economic network of the later Roman and Byzantine worlds. The handbook offers an up-to-date overview and user-friendly identification guide to known production sites, petrographic data, and current information on distribution, which stretches from Scotland and Wales to Yemen and India.
 
Samuel Grady Gillett received his BA in Archaeology from Boston University and MA in Near Eastern Archaeology from Tel Aviv University, with a thesis on analyzing the distribution network of Late Roman 1 amphoras in the eastern Mediterranean via petrography. He has excavated and surveyed in central and southern Israel and across the southeastern United States. His research interests include long-distance trade and connectivity and archaeology in the public media.
 
Veronica Iacomi received her BA in Archaeology from Sapienza University of Rome and her PhD at Naples' "L'Orientale." From 2004-2018 she was a member of the research team at Elaiussa Sebaste in Turkey, where she oversaw excavations of one of the city’s residential districts that included a large atelier for LRA1 production. Her research interests are centered on the archaeology of Cilicia from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine periods.