“…It also enables to recognize idiosyncratic distribution networks and, consequently, to reconstruct trade routes. At the current state of research, scholars have identified five major compositional groups distributed over the Empire between the 4th and the 7th century AD: Levantine 1, Levantine 2 (Freestone and Hughes, 2000), Egypt 1, Egypt 2 (Gratuze, 1988;Gratuze and Barradon, 1990) and HIMT (i.e. High Iron Manganese Titanium) (Mirti et al, 1993;Freestone, 1994).…”