Add to ORKGInternational audienceWhile excavating the medieval trade entrepôt of Sharma on the coast of Hadramawt (Yemen), a survey in the hinterland led to the discovery of a contemporary ceramic production centre near the village of Yadhghat in the Wâdî Jerba. The site is mostly destroyed except for a dozen small buildings and several heaps of ceramic shards associated with traces of bone-fire kilns. Excavations yielded thousands of fragments of a typical coarse ware which was found in quantity at Sharma. The site also delivered imported material typical of the Sharma horizon, c. 980-1150, but the presence of Abbasid pieces suggests that the prosperity of the kilns started before the foundation of the entrepôt, while the end of the production seems ...