AHIS150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ebla, Khirbet Kerak, Comb Ceramic
28 Aug 2018
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* contemporary with late predynastic- early first dynasty in egypt. * egyptian interactions with negev, s. coast and sinai. * interaction with egypt, ceramics and hieroglyphs (narmer) * egyptian artefacts at en besor; 90% of assemblage egyptian, * egyptian architecture, bread molds, egyptian ceramics, flint knives, serekhs. * stone vessels, serekhs, egyptian ceramics, egyptian architecture (brick dimensions, no stone foundations) * egyptian interest in products from southern levant. * contemporary with late first- second dynasty egypt. * gradual reduction of egyptian presence in coastal plain but concentration on negev and sinai. * presence of levantine vessels in abydos, egypt (= abydos ware) * as egypt pulls back it allows the canaanites to develop their own society. * at some point the city was burnt. * petrographic links with sinai; shells from red sea, slags and metallurgical materials from sinai. Large twin temple, small twin temple and large single roomed cultic structure. * red polished ware, deep grooved lattice burnished ware.
