Cypriot Sea Peoples at Tel Dan in the Early Iron Age
David Ilan

A number of features in the material culture of Tel Dan Strata IVB-VI suggest affiliations with Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean littoral. These include: (a) painted pottery that has been termed "Philistine pottery" whose techniques and motifs resemble more closely those of Cyprus and the Aegean and (b) a cultic structure, associated with recycling metallurgy, that belongs also to the Cypro-Aegean milieu. These phenomena are put into chronological context by a series of consistent radiometric dates which raise a number of methodological and historical questions.