TELL el-retaba 2009: the pottery
TELL el-retaba 2009: the pottery

Summary/Abstract: Pottery from excavations by the Polish–Slovak Archaeological Mission in 2009 can be dated to the New Kingdom (early Eighteenth, late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Dynasties), the Third Intermediate and Late Periods. Ceramic vessels from the early Eighteenth Dynasty, rims and bases of wine amphorae, so-called “meat jars”, red slipped bowls, came from area 3. Large amphorae made of marl clay, dated to the late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Dynasties, served as child coffins. The richest ceramic material came from strata of the Third Intermediate Period houses. Some pots were found in uppermost excavated layers — Late Period domestic contexts. The pottery from the Late Period was locally produced with some exceptions — vessels transported from Greek Islands and Cyprus and Syro-Palestine.

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