 Rilling was present on all the amphoras and sherds excavated, spaced approximately 1.2 cm apart, and apparently done on the potter’s wheel.Rilling started immediately above the toe button, and from there it crafted as a continuous spiral to the neck, interrupted only at the joint.Rilling was peculiar to the eastern Mediterranean in the first millennium AD and has been found on several ceramic forms in a number of sites (Pedersen 2008