MycIIIc and Philistine Monochrome Pottery in Israel: Their date and 'Significance'
I. The small corpus of MycIIIc pottery found in northern Israel include two vessels and small number of sherds. The new finds from Tel Beth Shean will be published soon by S. Sherratt and the author. The main points to be emphasized are: II. The term Philistine Monochrome is used here for the locally produced "MycIIIc -derived" pottery and the accompanying domestic ware of Aegean types found in the major cities of Philistia (mainly at Ashdod and Tel Miqne). I will defend my position first published in 1985 that this pottery is the earliest Philistine pottery and that it is a manifestation of immigration, produced during the latter part of the 20th Dynasty; the transition to Philistine Bichrome was gradual. The lack of such pottery in contemporary Canaanite cities in the region such as Lachish and Gezer demonstrates the cultural isolation of the immigrants, and should not be taken as evidence for chronological differentiation. |
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