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The long history of Ancient South Arabian (ASA) pottery dates back to the 3rd millennium BCE. It is made up of both local and regional types, transcending the boundaries of kingdoms in South Arabia. Some ASA pottery types, such as the chaff-tempered ovoid jar and the wavy rim bowl, were even widely distributed across south-western Arabia. ASA ceramics do not comprise distinctive shapes associated with specific functions, such as funerary and ritual purposes. External influences were rare and mainly came after the expansion of maritime trade at the turn of the Christian era.
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Procopius of Caesarea [Arabia in ...]
Roman historian of the sixth century whose work on the wars waged during the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527-565) includes an extensive digression on Arabian matters.
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Claudius Ptolemy / Klaudios Ptolemaios (ca. 100 CE – ca. 170 CE), Greek scholar, who, in his Geography, provides information for a cartographic representation of Arabia, which he divides into three distinct areas (Arabia Petraea, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Eudaemon), and for which he provides the highest number of toponyms and ethnonyms in extant classical sources.