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c
a VIII
The Tell el-Yahudiya Ware
and its Classification
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Tine Bagh
is Carlsberg Scholar/Curator at the
NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
other contemporary and related
painted wares, especially Syro-
Cilician Ware and Khabur Ware,
together with an evaluation
of this material and the
chronological significance. The
present Tell el-Dab
c
a volume is a
contribution to the understanding
of the early phase of the Middle
Bronze Age Culture, as well
as one of the many pieces that
constitute the Tell el-Dab
c
a
puzzle.
Levantine Painted Ware is one
of the most distinctive types
of pottery from the Middle
Bronze Age and a hallmark of
the beginning of this period as
it appears almost exclusively
in early Middle Bronze Age
contexts at sites in the Levant.
Examples are found from
northern Syria along the
eastern Mediterranean coast
and somewhat inland down to
Tell el-Dab
c
a in the eastern Nile
Delta and at other sites in Egypt
even as far south as Elephantine
on the southern border. The fact
that LPW appears as imports
in Egypt and especially at the
site of Tell el-Dab
c
a in secure
stratigraphical contexts is of the
utmost importance. Through the
dating of the strata there it may
be tied to the beginning of the
2
nd
Millennium, and thus be a
tool for dating of the beginning
of the Middle Bronze Age in the
Levant. The earliest reliably
dateable examples of LPW from
Egypt are from below the Middle
Kingdom temple at
c
Ezbet
Rushdi in the Tell el-Dab
c
a area.
Here these imports can be dated
to sometime before the reign of
Senwosret III and the earliest
occurrence dates to the time of
Amenemhet II or possibly even
the end of Senwosret I’s reign.
More examples of LPW, of which
some are of a type different
from the
c
Ezbet Rushdi material,
are from other excavation areas
at Tell el-Dab
c
a and for the most
part have been dated to the very
end of Dynasty XII, some even
to the beginning of Dynasty XIII.
The Tell el-Dab
c
a material is
the basis for an investigation of
the entire corpus of Levantine
Painted Ware from all other
sites in Egypt and in particular
the extensive material from the
Levant. This volume offers a
typology and a collection of all
known and published examples
of LPW in the Levant and
Egypt, as well as examples of
Tine Bagh
Tell el-Dab
c
a XXIII: Levantine Painted Ware
from Egypt and the Levant