The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe XIX

The collection of almost 1,000 clay pipes from the quarantine port of PomEgues provides a unique insight into pipe production and use throughout the Mediterranean and further afield. The author's exhaustive study makes a significant contribution to knowledge both of pipe production and circulation in a number of different ways. Although these have already been recognised and published from a range of sites throughout the Mediterranean basin, the PomEgues collection, arriving off Marseilles on ships from many ports of origin, is by far the...