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workmanship. An excavation of about 15 feet on the eastern side of
Holkat Bay opposite the Sira Road revealed 10 feet of the eastern
face and north corner of a wall in well cut limestone, squared,
hammer-dressed and coursed masonry. A small unglazed jug identi­
fied as probably belonging to the 14th- 15th century A.D. was found
a few feet below the surface.
Pottery from the trench bottom in Haines Gardens Road included
imported celadon as well as local pottery - when compared with
material found by Neville Chittick at Dar es Salaam this seemed to
belong to the 14th—15th century A.D., for this was a prosperous
period when Aden exported glazed (and unglazed) ware, some of
which has been found on the East African coast.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

1. Aden Antiquities Department 1963-4, Aden, 1965. 8.
2. C. Rathjens, H. von Wissmann, Vorislamische AItertiimer, Hamburg 1932,
Fig. 14 Phot. 83, Fig. 90.
3. ibid.
4. Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay, Catalogue No. AH. 1. 59.
5. B. Doe, Southern Arabia, London 1971, PI. 6.
6. A. Grohmann,>4ra6/e«, Munchen 1963, Abb. 97.