The Beginnings of Amphora Production in Egypt

Bourriau, Janine

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“…As discussed below, it is likely that at least some of these vessels contained wine. After the 18th Dynasty reunification of Egypt the produce of the vineyards of the delta was redirected to the royal control of Upper Egypt (Bourriau 2004, 90), perhaps cutting off supply to Cyprus.…”

Section: Canaanite Jars and Their Cypriot Use Contextmentioning

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“…It is likely that this development is linked to the rise of the Levantine coastal emporia, and the associated dramatic increase in maritime trade, stimulated by an Egyptian Middle Kingdom demand for wine and olive oil (Stager 2001, 635). Canaanite jars found in Egypt during the Middle Bronze horizon are associated particularly with wine transportation, and also elite consumption (Bourriau 2004, 84–5). The scale of this trade has been calculated at a ship a day entering Tell Dab'a during the sailing season, with a journey time to Cyprus of between 31–62 hours (Marcus 2006, 188).…”

Section: Canaanite Jars Within a Cypriot Universe Of Practicementioning

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Beyond Copper: Commodities and Values in Middle Bronze Cypro‐levantine Exchanges

Crewe

2012

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary During the transition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age, Cyprus became a full participant in the Levantine maritime interaction sphere. This is reflected in the archaeological record by a dramatic increase in the Cypriot pottery found in the surrounding region, widely assumed to be the by‐product of an (archaeologically invisible) external demand for Cypriot copper. On the receiving end of this relationship, small numbers of imported ‘luxury’ goods appear on Cyprus. This paper discusses one aspect of exchange that has received little attention in the literature, the presence and significance of quantities of imported transport amphorae (Canaanite jars). These vessels have only rarely been recognized from excavations on Cyprus but recent examination of material from several sites reveals that they are more common than previously assumed. The Canaanite jar evidence may go some way towards redressing the apparent imbalance in goods exchanged and also to illuminate the processes through which Cypriot populations first engaged with the materiality of urban ways of ordering the world.

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Section: Canaanite Jars and Their Cypriot Use Contextmentioning

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Section: Canaanite Jars Within a Cypriot Universe Of Practicementioning

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Beyond Copper: Commodities and Values in Middle Bronze Cypro‐levantine Exchanges

Crewe

2012

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…The results have now been published, but such a large and important set of data has been mined for several further studies (see Bourriau et al . 2000, 2006; Bourriau 2004, where further references are given).…”

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Inaa of Archaeological Samples at the University of Manchester

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INAA at Manchester began almost by chance, and amid scepticism, with a request for help from the university's Department of Archaeology in the early 1970s. Over the years, the method of selecting pottery to be sampled was refined from the simple assumption that sherds found at a site were typical of those made there, to a greater focus on kiln sites and wasters. An important element in Manchester's approach was that this was a teaching department: in the quarter-century during which the laboratory practised INAA over 6000 samples were analysed in a wide range of projects by postdoctoral researchers, Ph.D. students and even final-year undergraduates. Although there were sometimes problems of comprehension on both sides, close collaboration with archaeologists encouraged methodological comparisons, and often INAA was seen as an additional weapon in the archaeologists' arsenal as much as a developing scientific technique. The university's place as the inventor of the computer encouraged the development of statistical programs, which in turn facilitated ready collaboration and exchange of information with other laboratories, such as those at Bonn and Berkeley.

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“…On the basis of parallels 123 for type 25 from Tell el-Yahudiyeh, Tell Hebwa, Memphis, Kahun, Dahshur, Lisht, Qau/Antaeopolis, Abydos (? ), Buhen and Askut in Nubia it seems clear, according to the accessible data, that we are concerned with a "Northern" Egyptian type that has been transported to, or imitated 124 in, Nubia. Further work will show if this hypothesis is true or not, but so far no such pieces are known from south of Abydos to Elephantine.…”

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“…The clay of the vessels in question is sometimes described as "type Qena". 158 But there are also vessels from Kerma itself that were securely identified as Marl C. 159 It seems evident that the trading patterns between Egypt and Nubia are much more complex than hitherto thought.…”

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A Concise Guide to Marl C-Pottery

Bader¹

2004

Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant

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for the correction of my treatment of the English language. As this paper should serve as an English summary, not all the pieces I will refer to will be shown in drawing and with complete description, but only the most common types. For a more thorough treatment cf. B. BADER, Tell el-Dab c a XIII, Typologie und Chronologie der Mergel C-Ton Keramik, Vienna 2001 (in the following quoted as B. BADER, TD XIII). Note that only a small part of the Marl C-material from Kom Rabi c a is represented there. The complete corpus will be published by J. Bourriau. 1 DO. ARNOLD, Ägyptische Mergeltone ("Wüstentone") und die Herkunft einer Mergeltonware des Mittleren Reiches aus der Gegend von Memphis, in: DO. ARNOLD (ed.), Studien zur altägyptischen Keramik, Mainz 1981, 7 The term "self slip" is used here in the following sense: a white layer on the surface of the vessel developed by itself in the course of production through the presence of soluble salts. But it does not mean a slip consisting of the same material as the vessel. Cf. BADER, TD XIII, 22, footnote 54. The white surface can also be used as an indicator whether a given sherd belonged to an open or closed vessel, because on closed vessels only the outside shows this surface colour whereas on open shapes the inside is also white. There are, of course, exceptions, that could be explained by placing vessels inside each other in the kiln or while drying. 8 F. R. MATSON, Technological Studies of Egyptian Pottery-Modern and Ancient, in: A. BISHAY (ed.), Collected Papers of the 2 nd Cairo Solid State Conference, 1973, Recent Advances in Technology of Materials,

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The Beginnings of Amphora Production in Egypt

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Beyond Copper: Commodities and Values in Middle Bronze Cypro‐levantine Exchanges

Beyond Copper: Commodities and Values in Middle Bronze Cypro‐levantine Exchanges

Inaa of Archaeological Samples at the University of Manchester

A Concise Guide to Marl C-Pottery

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