Ancient craftsmanship: Focusing on pottery production in Gerasa

AMMAN — Ancient Gerasa (modern Jerash) was a well-known centre for pottery production: The evidence for that large scale commerce comes from the 2nd century AD, during the heydays of the Roman Empire. The foundation fills of the hippodrome, whose dirt includes misfired pottery and wasters from the 1st century BC to the early centuries of AD serves as proof for the manufacture

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